---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2706"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2706"
heading: "New impoundments"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2706"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Small Hydroelectric Power Projects"
---

# §2706. New impoundments


Nothing in this chapter authorizes (1) the loan of [funds](/usc/16/1421h.md?p=2) for construction of any new dam or other impoundment, or (2) the simple and expeditious licensing of any such new dam or other impoundment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–617, title IV, § 406, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3156.)