---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 2297"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "2297"
heading: "Operation and maintenance on recreation lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/2297"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Water Resources Development"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §2297. Operation and maintenance on recreation lands


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) shall not require, under [section 460d of title 16](/usc/16/460d.md), and the Federal Water Project Recreation Act [[16 U.S.C. 460l](/usc/16/460l.md)–12 et seq.], non-Federal interests to assume operation and maintenance of any recreational facility operated by the [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) at any water resources project as a condition to the construction of new recreational facilities at such project or any other water resources project.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–662, title IX, § 927, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4195.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal Water Project Recreation Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 89–72, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 213, which is classified principally to part C (§ 460l–12 et seq.) of subchapter LXIX of chapter 1 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 460l–12 of Title 16 and Tables.