---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2242"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2242"
heading: "Authority of Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2242"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief"
  - "Subchapter III — General and Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §2242. Authority of Secretary


The [Secretary](/usc/43/2201.md?p=1) is authorized to perform any and all acts and to promulgate such regulations as may be necessary and appropriate for the purpose of implementing this chapter. In carrying out the authorities under this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/43/2201.md?p=1) shall give specific consideration to the needs of fish and wildlife, together with other project purposes, and shall consider temporary operational changes which will mitigate, or can be expected to have an effect in mitigating, fish and wildlife losses and damages resulting from drought conditions, consistent with the [Secretary](/usc/43/2201.md?p=1)’s other obligations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–250, title III, § 302, Mar. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 58.)