---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1389"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1389"
heading: "Clean watersheds needs survey"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1389"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter VI — State Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds"
---

# §1389. Clean watersheds needs survey

- (a) **Requirement—** Not later than 2 years after November 15, 2021, and not less frequently than once every 4 years thereafter, the Administrator shall—
  - (1) conduct and complete an assessment of capital improvement needs for all projects that are eligible under [section 1383(c) of this title](/usc/33/1383.md?p=c) for assistance from [State](/usc/33/1362.md?p=3) water [pollution](/usc/33/1362.md?p=19) control revolving funds; and
  - (2) submit to Congress a report describing the results of the assessment completed under [paragraph (1)](#a-1).
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out the initial needs survey under [subsection (a)](#a) $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title VI, § 609, as added Pub. L. 117–58, div. E, title II, § 50220, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1180.)