Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-84

§2 Untitled Section

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12D— - COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT › § 2

Last updated Apr 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a revised repayment contract with the Columbia Basin Irrigation District that this Act approves or allows takes effect and binds the United States, the district’s operation and maintenance money that it spent or agreed to spend on building drainage works in 1960, 1961, and 1962, including interest, must be added to the project's construction cost for the irrigation share. The Secretary must either pay the district back for those payments (including interest) or give the district a credit, and if the district chooses a credit it will be applied to reduce future development or construction charges when they are due.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §2

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Upon any amendatory repayment contract with a Columbia Basin Irrigation District approved or authorized by this Act [enacting section 835–1 of this title, amending section 835c, 835c–1, 835c–2, 835c–4 of this title, repealing section 835a, 835b, 835c–3, and 835c–5 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under section 835a, 835b, and 835c of the title] becoming effective to bind the United States, that district’s share of the operation and maintenance funds expended or obligated for the construction of drainage works including appropriate interest thereon during calendar years 1960, 1961, and 1962 shall be capitalized and charged as a part of the construction cost of the project assigned directly to irrigation and the Secretary shall either refund to it or give it credit for (as it may elect) all operation and maintenance payments (including interest paid by it in connection therewith) which it has made for the construction of drainage works during those years, such credit, if so elected by the district, to be applied against future development period and/or construction charges of the district as they become due.”

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 2

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 22, 2026

Release point: 119-84