---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 802"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "802"
heading: "Information to accompany application for license; landowner notification"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/802"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of the Development of Water Power and Resources"
---

# §802. Information to accompany application for license; landowner notification

- (a) Each applicant for a license under this chapter shall submit to the [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c)—
  - (1) Such [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), plans, specifications, and estimates of cost as may be required for a full understanding of the proposed [project](/usc/16/796.md?p=11). Such [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), plans, and specifications when approved by the [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall be made a part of the license; and thereafter no change shall be made in said [maps](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), plans, or specifications until such changes shall have been approved and made a part of such license by the [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c).
  - (2) Satisfactory evidence that the applicant has complied with the requirements of the laws of the [State](/usc/16/796.md?p=6) or [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) within which the proposed [project](/usc/16/796.md?p=11) is to be located with respect to bed and banks and to the appropriation, diversion, and use of water for power purposes and with respect to the right to engage in the business of developing, transmitting and distributing power, and in any other business necessary to effect the purposes of a license under this chapter.
  - (3) [^1] Such additional information as the [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may require.
- (b) Upon the filing of any application for a license (other than a license under [section 808 of this title](/usc/16/808.md)) the applicant shall make a good faith effort to notify each of the following by certified mail:
  - (1) Any [person](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) who is an [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of record of any interest in the property within the bounds of the [project](/usc/16/796.md?p=11).
  - (2) Any Federal, [State](/usc/16/796.md?p=6), municipal or other local governmental agency likely to be interested in or affected by such application.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See Codification note below.

## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 9, 41 Stat. 1068; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847; Pub. L. 99–495, § 14, Oct. 16, 1986, 100 Stat. 1257.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Former subsec. (c), included in the provisions designated as subsec. (a) by Pub. L. 99–495, has been editorially redesignated as par. (3) of subsec. (a) as the probable intent of Congress.

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–495 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), redesignated former subsecs. (a) and (b) as pars. (1) and (2) of subsec. (a), and added subsec. (b).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 99–495 effective with respect to each license, permit, or exemption issued under this chapter after Oct. 16, 1986, see section 18 of Pub. L. 99–495, set out as a note under section 797 of this title.