---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17094"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17094"
heading: "Storm water runoff requirements for Federal development projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17094"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Energy Savings in Buildings and Industry"
  - "Part C — High-Performance Federal Buildings"
---

# §17094. Storm water runoff requirements for Federal development projects


The sponsor of any development or redevelopment [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) involving a [Federal facility](/usc/42/17061.md?p=8) with a footprint that exceeds 5,000 square feet shall use site planning, design, [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7), and maintenance strategies for the property to maintain or restore, to the maximum extent technically feasible, the predevelopment hydrology of the property with regard to the temperature, rate, volume, and duration of flow.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title IV, § 438, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1620.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.