---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8304"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8304"
heading: "Priority projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8304"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 83 — Washington Metropolitan Region Development"
---

# §8304. Priority projects


In carrying out the policy pursuant to [section 8303 of this title](/usc/40/8303.md) for the attainment of the objective established by [section 8302 of this title](/usc/40/8302.md), priority should be given to the solution, on a unified metropolitan basis, of the problems of water supply, sewage disposal, and water pollution and transportation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1211.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8304 | 40:133. | Pub. L. 86–527, § 4, June 27, 1960, 74 Stat. 223. |

The words “The Congress further declares that” are omitted as obsolete.