43 U.S.C. § 470 — When work increasing construction charge may be undertaken

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The Secretary of the Interior can't start work or spend money that would raise a water project's fixed construction charge. This is true unless the affected water-right holders first agree, in writing, to repay the extra cost. That agreement must follow the rules in section 469 of this title.

No work may be started, and no money may be spent, on land for which the construction charge has already been fixed by public notice, if that work or spending would, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, raise the construction cost above the fixed charge — unless and until a valid, binding agreement to repay that added cost has been made between the Secretary of the Interior and the water-right applicants and entrymen affected by the increased cost, following section 469 of this title.

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No work shall be undertaken or expenditure made for any lands, for which the construction charge has been fixed by public notice, which work or expenditure shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, increase the construction cost above the construction charge so fixed; unless and until valid and binding agreement to repay the cost thereof shall have been entered into between the Secretary of the Interior and the water-right applicants and entrymen affected by such increased cost, as provided by section 469 of this title.

Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 75, § 1, 38 Stat. 861.)

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1915Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 75 · 38 Stat. 861

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