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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§385a Payments to school districts for education of dependents of construction personnel; cooperative arrangements; chargeable to project

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 385a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can provide and pay for schooling for children of workers actually building Bureau of Reclamation projects when that building work puts an undue strain on local public schools. He must make cooperative agreements with the local school districts to share costs, run Government facilities, or help expand schools. Those expenses are charged to the project and must be repaid in the same way and to the same extent as the project’s other construction costs.

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Title 43, §385a

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The Secretary of the Interior, giving due consideration to the temporary nature of the requirements therefor, is authorized to make such provision as he deems to be necessary and in the public interest for the education of dependents of persons employed on the actual construction of projects or features of projects, by the Bureau of Reclamation, in any cases in which he finds that by reason of such construction activity, an undue burden is, or will be cast upon the facilities of the public-school districts serving the areas in which construction is being undertaken, and to pay for the same from any funds available for the construction of said projects: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall enter into cooperative arrangements with local school districts wherein such features are situated to contribute toward covering the cost of furnishing the educational services required for such dependents, or for the operation by those school districts of Government facilities, or for the expansion of local school facilities. Such cost incurred hereunder shall be charged to the project concerned and shall be repayable in the same manner and to the same extent as are its other costs of construction.

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Transfer of Functions

of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.

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43 U.S.C. § 385a

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73