42 U.S.C. § 1962
Section 1962 · Congressional statement of objectives
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 382 F. Supp. 610 - Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Callaway (1974)
Most recently applied in Environmental Defense Fund v. Marsh (July 1981)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
It is the intent of Congress that the objectives of enhancing regional economic development, the quality of the total environment, including its protection and improvement, the well-being of the people of the United States, and the national economic development are the objectives to be included in federally financed water resource projects (including shore protection projects such as projects for beach nourishment, including the replacement of sand), and in the evaluation of benefits and cost attributable thereto, giving due consideration to the most feasible alternative means of accomplishing these objectives.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Codification
Section was enacted as a part of the Flood Control Act of 1970 and not as a part of the Water Resources Planning Act which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–303 inserted “(including shore protection projects such as projects for beach nourishment, including the replacement of sand)” after “water resource projects”.