§835k — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

If irrigation users can’t repay the part of a project’s construction cost allocated to irrigation within the legal repayment time, and the project has no other money to cover it, that unpaid share must be paid back during the same period using the net money earned from selling commercial power and energy through the Federal Columbia River power system. This applies to future projects built, run, and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior under the federal reclamation laws, is subject to section 835l, and “Pacific Northwest” is defined in section 837.

Title 16, §835k

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Subject to the provisions of section 835l of this title, that portion of the construction cost of any project hereafter authorized to be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior under the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) within the Pacific Northwest which, though allocated to irrigation, is beyond the ability of the irrigation water users to repay within the repayment period prescribed by law for that project and cannot be returned within the same period from other project sources of revenue shall be charged to and returned within that period from net revenues derived from the marketing of commercial power and energy through the Federal Columbia River power system, unless otherwise provided by law. As used in this section, the term “Pacific Northwest” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 837 of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Act of

June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is act

June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to chapter 12 (§ 371 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 371 of Title 43 and Tables. Codification Section is comprised of second par. of section 2(a) of Pub. L. 89–448, as so designated by Pub. L. 89–561. First sentence of first par. of such section 2(a) is classified to section 835j of this title; second sentence of such first par. repealed section 832h(c) of this title; subsecs. (b) and (c) of section 2 are classified to section 835l and 835m of this title, respectively.

Amendments

1966—Pub. L. 89–561, § 6(2), substituted “Subject to the provisions of section 835l of this title, that” for “That”.

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.

§835k Return of Construction Costs From Marketing Revenues in Event of Inability of Irrigation Water Users to Repay Within Repayment Period and Lack of Other Sources of Revenue