---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460l–16"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460l–16"
heading: "Postauthorization development of projects without allocation or reallocation of costs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460l-16"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIX — Outdoor Recreation Programs"
  - "Part C — Water Resources Projects"
---

# §460l–16. Postauthorization development of projects without allocation or reallocation of costs


Nothing herein shall be construed as preventing or discouraging postauthorization development of any [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) for recreation or [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) enhancement or both by non-Federal public bodies pursuant to agreement with the head of the Federal agency having jurisdiction over the [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4). Such development shall not be the basis for any allocation or reallocation of [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) costs to recreation or [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) enhancement.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–72, § 5, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 215.)