§492 — Title 43 Public Lands | U.S. Code

Summary

Water-right applicants, entrymen, and landowners on a reclamation project must pay an operation and maintenance (O&M) charge when water is available to irrigate their land. Charges come from the project's total O&M cost or each unit's O&M cost and are billed for each acre-foot delivered. Each irrigable acre must pay at least the one-acre-foot minimum. If season collections exceed costs, the extra lowers next season's charge; if they fall short, the shortfall is added to next season's charge.

Title 43, §492

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In addition to the construction charge, every water-right applicant, entryman, or landowner under or upon a reclamation project shall also pay, whenever water service is available for the irrigation of his land, an operation and maintenance charge based upon the total cost of operation and maintenance of the project, or each separate unit thereof, and such charge shall be made for each acre-foot of water delivered; but each acre of irrigable land, whether irrigated or not, shall be charged with a minimum operation and maintenance charge based upon the charge for delivery of not less than one acre-foot of water. If the total amount of operation and maintenance charges and penalties collected for any one irrigation season on any project shall exceed the cost of operation and maintenance of the project during that irrigation season, the balance shall be applied to a reduction of the charge on the project for the next irrigation season, and any deficit incurred may likewise be added to the charge for the next irrigation season.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is comprised of part of first sentence and second sentence of section 5 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of first sentence of such section is classified to section 499 of this title.

§492 Operation and maintenance charges generally

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Title 43, §492

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