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[CITE: 42USC1962-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 19B--WATER RESOURCES PLANNING
 
Sec. 1962-1. Effect on existing laws

    Nothing in this chapter shall be construed--
        (a) to expand or diminish either Federal or State jurisdiction, 
    responsibility, or rights in the field of water resources planning, 
    development, or control; nor to displace, supersede, limit or modify 
    any interstate compact or the jurisdiction or responsibility of any 
    legally established joint or common agency of two or more States, or 
    of two or more States and the Federal Government; nor to limit the 
    authority of Congress to authorize and fund projects;
        (b) to change or otherwise affect the authority or 
    responsibility of any Federal official in the discharge of the 
    duties of his office except as required to carry out the provisions 
    of this chapter with respect to the preparation and review of 
    comprehensive regional or river basin plans and the formulation and 
    evaluation of Federal water and related land resources projects;
        (c) as superseding, modifying, or repealing existing laws 
    applicable to the various Federal agencies which are authorized to 
    develop or participate in the development of water and related land 
    resources or to exercise licensing or regulatory functions in 
    relation thereto, except as required to carry out the provisions of 
    this chapter; nor to affect the jurisdiction, powers, or 
    prerogatives of the International Joint Commission, United States 
    and Canada, the Permanent Engineering Board and the United States 
    Operating Entity or Entities established pursuant to the Columbia 
    River Basin Treaty, signed at Washington, January 17, 1961, or the 
    International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and 
    Mexico;
        (d) as authorizing any entity established or acting under the 
    provisions hereof to study, plan, or recommend the transfer of 
    waters between areas under the jurisdiction of more than one river 
    basin commission or entity performing the function of a river basin 
    commission.

(Pub. L. 89-80, Sec. 3, July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 244.)

                       References in Text

    The International Joint Commission, United States and Canada, 
referred to in subsec. (c), was organized in 1911 pursuant to article 
VII of the treaty of January 11, 1909, with Great Britain, 36 Stat. 
2448. Provisions relating to such Commission are contained in sections 
267b and 268 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1962b of this title.
