42 U.S.C. § 1962d-11a : US Code - Section 1962D-11A: Potomac River water diversion structure

Search 42 U.S.C. § 1962d-11a : US Code - Section 1962D-11A: Potomac River water diversion structure

(a) Consent of Congress for construction; written agreement
providing schedule for allocation among parties for withdrawal of
waters
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, the consent of
Congress is granted under section 401 of title 33 to the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission to construct a water diversion
structure, with an elevation not to exceed one hundred and fifty-
nine feet above sea level, from the north shore of the Potomac
River at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission water
filtration plant to the north shore of Watkins Island.
(2) The structure authorized by paragraph (1) of this subsection,
may not be constructed until the Secretary of the Army, acting
through the Chief of Engineers, and the State of Maryland, the
Commonwealth of Virginia, the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission, and such other governmental authorities as the
Secretary of the Army, the State of Maryland, and the Commonwealth
of Virginia deem desirable signatories enter into a written
agreement providing an enforceable schedule for allocation among
the parties to such agreement for the withdrawal of the waters of
that portion of the Potomac River located between Little Falls Dam
and the farthest upstream limit of the pool of water behind the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company rubble dam at Seneca, Maryland,
during periods of low flow of such portion of such river.
(b) Authorization of Secretary of the Army to enter written
agreement; amendments or revisions
The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers,
is authorized to enter into the agreement referred to in subsection
(a)(2) of this section and any amendment to or revision of such
agreement.
(c) Riparian rights or other authority of Maryland, Virginia,
political subdivisions; authority of District of Columbia
Except as may be provided in the agreement referred to in
subsection (a)(2) of this section, nothing in this section shall
alter any riparian rights or other authority of the State of
Maryland, or any political subdivision thereof, the Commonwealth of
Virginia, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of
Columbia, or authority of the Corps of Engineers existing on
October 22, 1976, relative to the appropriation of water from, or
the use of, the Potomac River.