Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102

§598 Salt River Project, Arizona; Sale of Water Power

Title 43 › CHAPTER 12 — RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › SUBCHAPTER XVII — LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY › § 598

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can make contracts, up to 50 years long, to sell any extra power made for irrigation under the Salt River project. Cities and towns get first choice. Money from those sales must go into the Salt River project account and be used the way the contract with the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association approved September 6, 1917 says. No sale contract can reduce the project's efficiency. Any sale must have the OK of the organized water-users’ association or irrigation district that agreed to repay the project's cost. The price for power may be reset after 5, 10, or 20 years as the contract describes.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §598

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Whenever a development of power is necessary for the irrigation of lands under the Salt River reclamation project, Arizona, or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under said project, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, giving preference to municipal purposes, to enter into contracts for a period not exceeding fifty years for the sale of any surplus power so developed, and the money derived from such sales shall be placed to the credit of said project for disposal as provided in the contract between the United States of America and the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association, approved September 6, 1917: Provided, That no contract shall be made for the sale of such surplus power which will impair the efficiency of said project: Provided, however, That no such contract shall be made without the approval of the legally organized water-users’ association or irrigation district which has contracted with the United States to repay the cost of said project: Provided further, That the charge for power may be readjusted at the end of five-, ten-, or twenty-year periods after the beginning of any contract for the sale of power in a manner to be described in the contract.

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43 U.S.C. § 598

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102