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[CITE: 42USC1962d-7]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 19B--WATER RESOURCES PLANNING
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IV--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1962d-7. Delmarva Peninsula hydrologic study; duties of 
        Secretary of the Interior
        
    The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the 
``Secretary'') is authorized and directed to make a comprehensive study 
and investigation of the water resources of the Delmarva Peninsula with 
a view to determining the availability of fresh water supplies needed to 
meet the anticipated future water requirements of the Delmarva Peninsula 
area, and with a view to determining the most effective means from the 
standpoint of hydrologic feasibility of protecting and developing fresh 
water sources so as to insure, insofar as practicable, the availability 
of adequate water supplies in the future. In carrying out such study and 
investigation with respect to the Delmarva Peninsula, the Secretary 
shall--
        (1) appraise the water use, requirements, and trends, and 
    determine the availability of water in the streams and underground 
    sources for the entire peninsula;
        (2) determine the depths, thicknesses, and permeabilities, the 
    perennial yield, and the recharge characteristics of major aquifers, 
    and the quality characteristics to be expected from each such major 
    aquifer;
        (3) determine with respect to ground water resources the 
    continuity and extent of important water-bearing formations;
        (4) determine the yield from stream systems under natural flow 
    conditions and under varying degrees of storage and the amounts and 
    quality of waters available from such systems during drought, flood, 
    and intermediate conditions;
        (5) determine whether sea water has moved inland into heavily 
    pumped coastal aquifers;
        (6) give special consideration to conditions which may invite 
    the invasion of sea water into fresh-water supplies;
        (7) compile and make available to appropriate State and local 
    officials any results of this study and investigation that would be 
    appropriate for their use in long-range planning, development, and 
    management of water supplies;
        (8) cooperate with State and local agencies for the purpose of 
    using any information and data available to carry out the purposes 
    of this study; and
        (9) consider such other matters as the Secretary may deem 
    appropriate to the study and investigation herein authorized.

(Pub. L. 89-618, Sec. 1, Oct. 4, 1966, 80 Stat. 870.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Water Resources Planning Act 
which comprises this chapter.


 Washington Metropolitan Area Water Needs and Estuarial Water Supplies; 
                                 Studies

    Pub. L. 93-251, title I, Sec. 85, Mar. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 36, 
provided in part for a study of Washington Metropolitan Area Future 
Water Needs, coordinated with Northeastern United States Water Supply 
study, and for a study of Estuarial Water Supplies, including a Potomac 
Estuary Water Treatment Pilot Project, for review of scientific basis 
for study conclusions by National Academy of Sciences-National Academy 
of Engineering, and made further authorizations for Sixes Bridge Dam and 
Lake Project, Maryland dependent on such studies and review.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1962d-8, 1962d-9, 1962d-10, 
1962d-11 of this title.
