§419 — Title 43 Public Lands | U.S. Code

Summary

When the Secretary of the Interior decides an irrigation project can be built, the Secretary can award construction contracts for parts of the project if funds are available. The Secretary must publicly announce which lands can be irrigated, the maximum acres allowed per entry (based on what the Secretary thinks a family needs), the per‑acre charges, how many yearly payments are allowed, and when payments begin. For construction work, eight hours count as one day’s work.

Title 43, §419

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Upon the determination that any irrigation project is practicable, the Secretary of the Interior may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, providing the necessary funds for such portions or sections are available, and thereupon he shall give public notice of the lands irrigable under such project, and limit of area per entry, which limit shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question; also of the charges which shall be made per acre upon the said entries, and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of the said irrigation project, and the number of annual installments in which such charges shall be paid and the time when such payments shall commence: Provided, That in all construction work eight hours shall constitute a day’s work.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is comprised of part of section 4 of act June 17, 1902. Remainder of such section 4 is classified to section 461 of this title.

Amendments

1956—Act May 10, 1956, substituted a period for the comma after “work” in proviso, and struck out “and no Mongolian labor shall be employed thereon.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands ActProvisions of this section as not amended, modified, or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.

§419 Contract for Irrigation Project; Notice as to Lands Irrigable, Unit of Entry, and Construction Charges