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[CITE: 16USC1003a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
          CHAPTER 18--WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD PREVENTION
 
Sec. 1003a. Cost share assistance


(a) Easements

    The Secretary may provide cost share assistance to project sponsors 
to enable such sponsors to acquire perpetual wetland or floodplain 
conservation easements to perpetuate, restore and enhance the natural 
capability of wetlands and floodplains to retain excessive floodwaters, 
improve water quality and quantity, and provide habitat for fish and 
wildlife.

(b) Amount

    The Secretary shall require that project sponsors of watershed 
projects provide up to 50 percent of the cost of acquiring easements 
under subsection (a) of this section.

(Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, Sec. 3A, as added Pub. L. 101-624, title XIV, 
Sec. 1462, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3615.)
