Title 16 › Chapter 12— FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter I— REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES › § 810
Tells how money from these licenses must be handled. Money from any Indian reservation must go to the Indians of that reservation. Other license charges, except fees charged to repay federal administration costs, go into the U.S. Treasury and are split this way: 12.5% goes to miscellaneous receipts; 50% of charges for using public lands and national forests goes to the Reclamation Fund (created June 17, 1902); 37.5% for development inside a State is paid to that State; and 50% of charges from other licenses is kept as a special Treasury fund for the Army to use on dams and navigation improvements. Fees that reimburse federal administration costs go into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. If a licensee pays late, a 5% penalty applies for the first month or part of a month, and an extra 3% for each later month until the charges and penalties are paid or the license is canceled and the amount is settled.
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16 U.S.C. § 810
Title 16 — Conservation
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Apr 5, 2026
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