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

Title 16 › Chapter 12C— FORT PECK PROJECT › § 833q

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Army may use Fort Peck project money to pay the local school district(s) for school facilities and, when needed, transportation for children of workers who live on untaxed U.S. land at or near Fort Peck. For any school year, the payment cannot be more than the share of the costs to run and maintain the schools that equals those children’s average daily attendance divided by the schools’ total average daily attendance. Each fiscal year, the Bureau of Reclamation must pay back the Army from the continuing fund in section 833i for the part of those payments that are operating costs tied to power generation and transmission delivered to the Bureau under that section.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §833q

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Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, payments may be made, in advance or otherwise, from any funds available for the Fort Peck project, Montana, to the school district or districts serving that project as reimbursement for educational facilities (including, where appropriate, transportation to and from school) furnished by the said district or districts to pupils who are dependents of persons engaged in the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project and living at or near Fort Peck upon real property of the United States not subject to taxation by State or local agencies and upon which payments in lieu of taxes are not made by the United States, which payments for any school year shall not exceed that part of the cost of operating and maintaining such facilities which the number of pupils aforesaid in average daily attendance during that year bears to the whole number of pupils in average daily attendance at those schools during that year: Provided, That of the whole amount so paid in any fiscal year, the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, shall reimburse the Secretary of the Army from the continuing fund provided in section 833i of this title, that part which is properly chargeable as an operation expense incident to the generation and transmission of power delivered to the Bureau under said section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of act May 18, 1938, which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Power marketing functions of Bureau of Reclamation, including

Construction

, operation, and maintenance of transmission lines and attendant facilities, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(a)(1)(E), (3) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and are to be exercised by Secretary through a separate Administration within Department of Energy.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 833q

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60