43 U.S.C. § 593b — Construction of additional works for irrigation purposes
submitted 82 years ago by ch. 234 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 132 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary may build and operate additional irrigation works under the Federal reclamation laws. The works require the Secretary’s report and findings, must fit water users’ ability to repay, and may use an appropriate share of dam and reservoir costs for irrigation.
The Secretary of the Interior may build, operate, and maintain additional works considered necessary for irrigation under the Federal reclamation laws. The works may be undertaken only after the Secretary makes the required report and findings. Within water users’ ability to repay, the report may allocate an appropriate part of dam and reservoir construction cost to irrigation. The dam, reservoir, and irrigation works may be used for irrigation only as those laws provide.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (Act June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), such additional works as he may deem necessary for irrigation purposes. Such irrigation works may be undertaken only after a report and findings thereon have been made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in such Federal reclamation laws; and, within the limits of the water users’ repayment ability, such report may be predicated on allocation to irrigation of an appropriate portion of the cost of constructing said dam and reservoir. Said dam and reservoir and said irrigation works may be utilized for irrigation purposes only pursuant to the provisions of said Federal reclamation laws.
Source credit: (June 5, 1944, ch. 234, § 3, 58 Stat. 271.)
- 1944Enacted · Act of June 5, 1944, ch. 234 · 58 Stat. 271
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