43 U.S.C. § 390c — Water reservoirs; interests of States and local agencies in storage space

submitted 63 years ago by Pub. L. 88-140 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 116 words · no verdicts yet

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Many states and local governments have paid, or agreed to pay, for water storage space at Army dams. No law currently says how long they can keep that right. Their right to use that storage can continue as long as the facility exists, under later rules.

Congress recognizes that many states and local interests have contributed money to the government — or agreed to pay it over a set number of years — for water storage space at government-owned dams and reservoirs the Army Corps of Engineers built, and that this practice will keep happening. No law currently defines how long their interest in that storage space lasts. Since these states and local interests take on the obligation of paying most of the cost of that storage space, their right to use it may continue for as long as the facility exists, as later sections of this subchapter provide.

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Cognizant that many States and local interests have in the past contributed to the Government, or have contracted to pay to the Government over a specified period of years, money equivalent to the cost of providing for them water storage space at Government-owned dams and reservoirs, constructed by the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, and that such practices will continue, and, that no law defines the duration of their interest in such storage space, and realizing that such States and local interests assume the obligation of paying substantially their portion of the cost of providing such facilities, their right to use may be continued during the existence of the facility as hereinafter provided.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 88–140, § 1, Oct. 16, 1963, 77 Stat. 249.)

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1963Enacted · Pub. L. 88-140 · 77 Stat. 249

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