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§391a Advances to reclamation fund

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - RECLAMATION FUND GENERALLY › § 391a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Treasury Secretary may transfer up to $5,000,000 into the reclamation fund if the Interior Secretary asks and the President approves. The money is for projects under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 that were underway March 3, 1931.

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Title 43, §391a

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The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, upon request of the Secretary of the Interior and upon approval of the President, to transfer from time to time to the credit of the reclamation fund created by section 391 of this title, such sum or sums, not exceeding in the aggregate $5,000,000, as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary for the construction and operation of reclamation projects authorized under the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and under way on March 3, 1931, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.

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Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 391a

Title 43Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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