Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§2202 Payments to Agricultural Producers for Carrying Out Water Conservation or Water Enhancing Measures; Criteria
Title 16 › CHAPTER 42 — EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM › § 2202
Summary
The Secretary can pay farmers and ranchers who take emergency steps to save water or improve water supplies, including actions to help animals kept in pens, during severe droughts the Secretary finds.
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Title 16, §2202
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The Secretary is authorized to make payments to agricultural producers who carry out emergency water conservation or water enhancing measures (including measures carried out to assist confined livestock) during periods of severe drought as determined by the Secretary.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “The Secretary is” for “The Secretary of Agriculture is”. 1989—Pub. L. 101–82, § 502(1), inserted “(including measures carried out to assist confined livestock)”. Pub. L. 101–82, § 502(2), temporarily substituted “any fiscal year in which there is a period of severe drought” for “periods of severe drought”. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1989 Amendment note below.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective and Termination Dates of 1989 Amendment Pub. L. 101–82, title V, § 502(2), Aug. 14, 1989, 103 Stat. 586, provided in part that amendment by section 502(2) of Pub. L. 101–82 is effective only for fiscal year 1989.
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 406 of Pub. L. 95–334, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
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16 U.S.C. § 2202
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102