Water Resources Development Act
title: "Water Resources Development Act" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["united-states-federal-defense-and-national-security-legislation", "united-states-federal-public-land-legislation", "united-states-federal-environmental-legislation", "water-law-in-the-united-states", "federal-assistance-in-the-united-states"] topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Resources_Development_Act" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), is a reference to public laws enacted by Congress to deal with various aspects of water resources: environmental, structural, navigational, flood protection, hydrology, etc.
Typically, the United States Army Corps of Engineers administers the bulk of the Act's requirements.
There have been a series of WRDAs:
- Water Resources Development Act of 1974, WRDA 1974,
- Water Resources Development Act of 1976, WRDA 1976,
- Water Resources Development Act of 1986, WRDA 1986, (WRDA86.pdf, via TaxPayer.net)
- Water Resources Development Act of 1988, WRDA 1988,
- Water Resources Development Act of 1990, WRDA 1990,
- Water Resources Development Act of 1992, WRDA 1992,
- Water Resources Development Act of 1996, WRDA 1996,
- Water Resources Development Act of 1999, WRDA 1999,
- Water Resources Development Act of 2000, WRDA 2000,
- Water Resources Development Act of 2007, WRDA 2007,
- Water Resources Development Act of 2014, WRDA 2014,
- Water Resources Development Act of 2016, WRDA 2016, included as part of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act),
- Water Resources Development Act of 2020, WRDA 2020, Division AA of
- Water Resources Development Act of 2022, WRDA 2022, included as part of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA 2023).
Related acts
- River and Harbor Act of 1938, , June 20, 1938
- Flood Control Act of 1938, , June 28, 1938
- River and Harbor Act of 1940, , October 17, 1940
- Flood Control Act of 1941, , August 18, 1941
- Flood Control Act of 1944, , December 22, 1944
- River and Harbor Act of 1945, , March 2, 1945
- River and Harbor Act of 1946, , July 24, 1946
- Flood Control Act of 1946, , July 24, 1946
- River and Harbor Act of 1948, , June 30, 1948 (Flood Control Act of 1948)
- River and Harbor Act of 1950, , May 17, 1950 (Flood Control Act of 1950)
- River and Harbor Act of 1954, , September 3, 1954 (Flood Control Act of 1954)
- River and Harbor Act of 1958, , July 3, 1958 (Flood Control Act of 1958)
- River and Harbor Act of 1960, , July 14, 1960 (Flood Control Act of 1960)
- River and Harbor Act of 1962, , October 23, 1962 (Flood Control Act of 1962)
- River and Harbor Act of 1965, , October 27, 1965 (Flood Control Act of 1965)
- River and Harbor Act of 1966, , November 7, 1966 (Flood Control Act of 1966)
- River and Harbor Act of 1968 (Flood Control Act of 1968)
- River and Harbor Act of 1970, , December 31, 1970 (Flood Control Act of 1970)
- Flood Control Act of 1972, , March 7, 1974
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