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Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102

§1528 Authorization of Appropriations

Title 43 › CHAPTER 32 — COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECT › SUBCHAPTER III — AUTHORIZED UNITS; PROTECTION OF EXISTING USES › § 1528

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Authorizes $832,180,000, plus or minus amounts for normal cost changes, to build the Central Arizona Project. That money can include prepayment for power generation and transmission but not distribution or drainage for non-Indian lands. It also allows whatever additional sums are needed to operate and maintain the project. Authorizes $100,000,000, adjusted for ordinary cost changes from September 30, 1968, to build distribution and drainage for non-Indian lands. The Secretary must make agreements so non-Federal partners pay at least 20% of those construction costs during building. Money appropriated for these facilities and revenues from them must not be placed in the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund, and that Fund must not be used to repay any of these construction, operation, or maintenance costs to the Treasury general fund.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §1528

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(a)There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of the Central Arizona Project, including prepayment for power generation and transmission facilities but exclusive of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands, $832,180,000 plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved therein and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required for operation and maintenance of the project.
(b)There is also authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for construction of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering and cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved therein from September 30, 1968: Provided, That the Secretary shall enter into agreements with non-Federal interests to provide not less than 20 per centum of the total cost of such facilities during the construction of such facilities. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1543 of this title, neither appropriations made pursuant to the authorization contained in this subsection nor revenues collected in connection with the operation of such facilities shall be credited to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund and payments shall not be made from that fund to the general fund of the Treasury to return any part of the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of such facilities.

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1983—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–373 substituted “There is also authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for

Construction

of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in

Construction

costs as indicated by engineering and cost indices applicable to the types of

Construction

involved therein from September 30, 1968: Provided, That the Secretary shall enter into agreements with non-Federal interests to provide not less than 20 per centum of the total cost of such facilities during the

Construction

of such facilities” for “There is also authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 for

Construction

of distribution and drainage facilities for non-Indian lands”.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 1528

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102