§1600a — Title 43 Public Lands | U.S. Code

Summary

Defines key words used later in the law. Committees means the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committees on Environment and Public Works and on Energy and Natural Resources. Financial assistance covers loans, grants, guarantees, insurance, payments, rebates, subsidies, or other federal help, but it does not include (1) general revenue-sharing grants under section 6702 of title 31, (2) deposit or account insurance for banks or credit unions, (3) mortgage purchases by GNMA, FNMA, or FHLMC, (4) required environmental studies for permits, or (5) programs unrelated to development like public assistance or old-age, survivors, or disability insurance. Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. Water district means any public agency that provides water service (for example, water districts, county water districts, public utility districts, and irrigation districts). Floodway means the Colorado River Floodway created in section 1600c.

Title 43, §1600a

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(a)The term “Committees” refers to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate.

(b)The term “financial assistance” means any form of loan, grant, guaranty, insurance, payment, rebate, subsidy, or any other form of direct or indirect Federal assistance other than—

(1)general revenue-sharing grants made under section 6702 11 See References in Text note below. of title 31;

(2)deposit or account insurance for customers of banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, or similar institutions;

(3)the purchase of mortgages or loans by the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation;

(4)assistance for environmental studies, plans, and assessments that are required incident to the issuance of permits or other authorizations under Federal law; and

(5)assistance pursuant to programs entirely unrelated to development, such as any Federal or federally assisted public assistance program or any Federal old-age, survivors, or disability insurance program.

(c)The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.

(d)The term “water district” means any public agency providing water service, including water districts, county water districts, public utility districts, and irrigation districts.

(e)The term “Floodway” means the Colorado River Floodway established in section 1600c of this title.

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Chapter 67 of title 31, including section 6702, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), was repealed by Pub. L. 99–272, title XIV, § 1400(a)(1), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 327. See also Codification note below. The dates on which the provisions of section 4029(a) and (b) of title 42 become effective, referred to in subsec. (b), is Oct. 8, 1986, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 99–450 which enacted section 4029(a), (b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Codification In subsec. (b)(1), “section 6702 of title 31” substituted for “section 102 of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance

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of 1972 (31 U.S.C. 1221)” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

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1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” before “of the United States House”.

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