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Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102

§485d Time of Payments to the United States

Title 43 › CHAPTER 12 — RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › SUBCHAPTER X — PAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CHARGES › § 485d

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can require contracts to say that yearly payments to the United States must be paid on one or two dates each year. Those dates should line up with when water users get crop income. If the contract is with an organization, the contract can also require that the group collect fees or assessments before those payment dates, on a schedule the contract agrees to. The Secretary can allow delays in charging construction costs when needed to prevent unfair stacking of those charges.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §485d

Public Lands, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary in this discretion may require, in connection with any contract entered into pursuant to the authority of this subchapter, that the contract provide (1) that the payments for each year to be made to the United States shall become due and payable on such date or dates, not exceeding two, in each year as the Secretary determines will be substantially contemporaneous with the time or times in each year when water users receive crop returns and (2) if the contract be with an organization, that assessments or levies for the purpose of obtaining moneys sufficient to meet the organization’s payments under said contract shall be made and shall become due and payable within a certain period or periods of time prior to the date or dates on which the organization’s payments to the United States are due and payable, said period or periods of time to be agreed upon in each said contract. The Secretary may provide such deferments of construction charges as in his judgment are necessary to prevent said requirements from resulting in inequitable pyramiding of payments of said charges.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Extension of Secretary’s Authority To Enter Into Amendatory ContractsSecretary’s authority extended through Dec. 31, 1960, see section 485b–1 of this title.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 485d

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102