§833q Educational Costs of Dependents of Employees; Payments to School Districts; Reimbursement From Continuing Fund

Summary

Under rules set by the Secretary of the Army, money from Fort Peck project funds in Montana can be paid (even in advance) to the school district or districts that serve the project. These payments reimburse schools for facilities and services (including, when needed, transportation) for children of people working on building, running, or maintaining the project who live on U.S. land at or near Fort Peck that is not taxed by state or local governments and for which the United States does not make payments in lieu of taxes. The payment for any school year cannot exceed the share of the schools’ operating and maintenance costs that matches the share of average daily attendance made up by those children. Of the total paid in a fiscal year, the Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) must repay the Army from the continuing fund in section 833i the portion that is an operating expense tied to generating and transmitting power delivered to the Bureau under that section.