43 U.S.C. § 391 — Establishment of “reclamation fund”

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This section created the 'reclamation fund' from money earned selling public land in sixteen western states. The fund began in 1901 and pays for surveying, building, and maintaining irrigation projects in those states. A later amendment extended this law to Texas and several U.S. territories.

All money the government earns from selling public land in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming — starting with the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1901 — is set aside in a special Treasury fund called the "reclamation fund." This includes surplus fees and commissions the Secretary of the Interior allows officers to collect, but excludes the 5 percent of land-sale proceeds that other laws already set aside for education and similar purposes in those states. The fund pays for examining and surveying, and for building and maintaining, irrigation works that store, move, and develop water to reclaim dry and semi-dry land in those states and territories, along with other expenses the founding Act (the Act of June 17, 1902) provided for. A later amendment extended these same rules to the State of Texas, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.

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All moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, including the surplus of fees and commissions in excess of allowances to officers designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and excepting the 5 per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the “reclamation fund”, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands in the said States and Territories, and for the payment of all other expenditures provided for in this Act.

The provisions of the Act entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same are hereby, extended so as to include and apply to the State of Texas, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands..1

Source credit: (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 1 (part), 32 Stat. 388; June 12, 1906, ch. 3288, 34 Stat. 259; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100; Pub. L. 99–396, § 17, Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 843.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1902Enacted · Act of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093 · 32 Stat. 388
1906Amended · Act of June 12, 1906, ch. 3288 · 34 Stat. 259
1921Amended · Act of Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114 · 42 Stat. 208
1925Amended · Act of Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462 · 43 Stat. 1145
1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-396 · 100 Stat. 843

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1093 on 1902-06-17.

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