Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60
§825t Utilization of Power Revenues
Title 16 › Chapter 12— FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER › Subchapter III— LICENSEES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 825t
Summary
Power money from any project must not be paid out as profit at any time, even after the project’s debt is paid off. Earlier appropriation laws do not allow such payments. Using that money to run, maintain, or pay the debt of the project’s irrigation system, or for other things that help the irrigation system, is allowed and is not a profit payment.
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Title 16, §825t
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No power revenues on any project shall be distributed as profits, before or after retirement of the project debt, and nothing contained in any previous appropriation Act shall be deemed to have authorized such distribution: Provided, That the application of such revenues to the cost of operation, maintenance, and debt service of the irrigation system of the project, or to other purposes in aid of such irrigation system, shall not be construed to be such a distribution.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Power Act which generally comprises this chapter.
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16 U.S.C. § 825t
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60