---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 15734"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "15734"
heading: "Great Lakes Authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/15734"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Regional Economic and Infrastructure Development"
  - "Chapter 157 — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter II — Designation of Regions"
---

# §15734. Great Lakes Authority


The [region](/usc/40/15101.md?p=6) of the Great Lakes Authority shall consist of the counties which contain, in part or in whole, the areas in the watershed of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes System (as such terms are defined in section 118(a)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ([33 U.S.C. 1268(a)(3)](/usc/33/1268.md?p=a-3))), in each of the following States:

- (1) Illinois.
- (2) Indiana.
- (3) Michigan.
- (4) Minnesota.
- (5) New York.
- (6) Ohio.
- (7) Pennsylvania.
- (8) Wisconsin.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. O, title IV, § 401(b)(1), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5228; amended Pub. L. 118–272, div. B, title II, § 2247, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 3204.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 118–272 inserted “the counties which contain, in part or in whole, the” after “consist of” in introductory provisions.