---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460l–19"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460l–19"
heading: "Feasibility reports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460l-19"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIX — Outdoor Recreation Programs"
  - "Part C — Water Resources Projects"
---

# §460l–19. Feasibility reports


Effective on and after July 1, 1966, neither the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior nor any bureau nor any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) acting under his authority shall engage in the preparation of any [feasibility report](/usc/16/460l–21.md?p=d) under reclamation law with respect to any water resource [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) unless the preparation of such [feasibility report](/usc/16/460l–21.md?p=d) has been specifically authorized by law, any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–72, § 8, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 217.)