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§825t Utilization of power revenues

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - LICENSEES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 825t

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Project power revenues cannot be paid out as profits at any time. No earlier appropriation act allows that; revenues may only fund irrigation costs.

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Title 16, §825t

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No power revenues on any project shall be distributed as profits, before or after retirement of the project debt, and nothing contained in any previous appropriation Act shall be deemed to have authorized such distribution: Provided, That the application of such revenues to the cost of operation, maintenance, and debt service of the irrigation system of the project, or to other purposes in aid of such irrigation system, shall not be construed to be such a distribution.

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Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Power Act which generally comprises this chapter.

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16 U.S.C. § 825t

Title 16Conservation

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73