---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1003a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1003a"
heading: "Cost share assistance"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1003a"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention"
---

# §1003a. Cost share assistance

- (a) **Easements—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may provide cost share assistance to [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) sponsors to enable such sponsors to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) perpetual wetland or floodplain [conservation](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) 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](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall require that [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) sponsors of watershed [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) provide up to 50 percent of the cost of acquiring easements under [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

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