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§593b Construction of Additional Works for Irrigation Purposes

Title 43 › Chapter 12— RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter XVII— LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY › § 593b

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can build, run, and take care of extra irrigation projects under the Federal Reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and later changes). He may only start after making the required report and findings under those laws, and the report may charge part of the dam and reservoir cost to irrigation as long as water users can repay it. The dam, reservoir, and irrigation works must be used only in the ways those reclamation laws allow.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §593b

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain under the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws (Act June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), such additional works as he may deem necessary for irrigation purposes. Such irrigation works may be undertaken only after a report and findings thereon have been made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in such Federal reclamation laws; and, within the limits of the water users’ repayment ability, such report may be predicated on allocation to irrigation of an appropriate portion of the cost of constructing said dam and reservoir. Said dam and reservoir and said irrigation works may be utilized for irrigation purposes only pursuant to the provisions of said Federal reclamation laws.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Authorization of AppropriationsAct June 5, 1944, ch. 234, § 4, 58 Stat. 271, authorized appropriation of such sums as might be necessary to carry out the purpose of this section and section 593a of this title.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 593b

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60