25 U.S.C. § 388 — Claims for damages; settlement by agreement
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The Secretary of the Interior can pay landowners for damage caused by federal irrigation project work. Payments come from money set aside for that irrigation project. These settlements cannot use more than 5 percent of a project's yearly funds.
The Secretary* of the Interior can use funds set aside for Indian irrigation projects to pay for damage. This applies to owners of land or other private property harmed by the United States, its officers, or employees while surveying, building, running, or maintaining a project's irrigation works. The Secretary (or an officer the Secretary picks) can settle these claims by agreement with the person harmed. But: all claims settled this way for one project cannot use more than 5 percent of that project's available funds in any one fiscal year.
The Secretary* of the Interior is authorized to pay out of funds available for the Indian irrigation projects for damages caused to owners of lands or other private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works of such projects and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior or such officers as he may designate: Provided, That the total of any such claims authorized to be settled as herein contemplated shall not exceed 5 per centum of the funds available for the project under which such claims arise during any one fiscal year.
Source credit: (Feb. 20, 1929, ch. 279, 45 Stat. 1252.)
- 1929Enacted · Act of Feb. 20, 1929, ch. 279 · 45 Stat. 1252
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 279 on 1929-02-20.
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