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§618d Readvances From Treasury Where Dam Fund Is Insufficient to Meet Cost of Replacements

Title 43 › CHAPTER 12A — BOULDER CANYON PROJECT › SUBCHAPTER II — BOULDER CANYON PROJECT ADJUSTMENT ACT › § 618d

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

If the Colorado River Dam Fund does not have enough money to pay for needed replacements after meeting other costs required by law and Interior Department rules, the Secretary of the Treasury, when asked by the Secretary of the Interior, must advance whatever extra is needed, as long as the total does not exceed the total repaid to the Treasury under section 618a(b). Congress may appropriate money from the Treasury up to that same total to allow these advances. All such advances must bear interest.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §618d

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If at any time there shall be insufficient sums in the Colorado River Dam Fund to meet the cost of replacements, however necessitated, in addition to meeting the other requirements of this subchapter, or of regulations authorized hereby and promulgated by the Secretary, the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the Secretary of the Interior, shall readvance to the said fund, in amounts not exceeding, in the aggregate, moneys repaid to the Treasury pursuant to section 618a(b) of this title, the amount required for replacements, however necessitated, in excess of the amount currently available therefor in said Colorado River Dam Fund. There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums, not exceeding said aggregate amount, as may be necessary to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to make such readvances. All such readvances shall bear interest.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Readvances to Colorado River Dam Fund; Interest Rate on Readvances Pub. L. 103–316, title II, Aug. 26, 1994, 108 Stat. 1713, which provided in part that amounts required for replacement work on the Boulder Canyon Project that would require readvances to the Colorado River Dam Fund from the total appropriated for operation and maintenance of reclamation projects were to be so readvanced pursuant to this section, and that readvances after Oct. 1, 1984, were to bear a prescribed interest rate, was from the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1995, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts. Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts: Pub. L. 103–126, title II, Oct. 28, 1993, 107 Stat. 1323. Pub. L. 102–377, title II, Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1328. Pub. L. 102–104, title II, Aug. 17, 1991, 105 Stat. 523. Pub. L. 101–514, title II, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2084. Pub. L. 101–101, title II, Sept. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 653. Pub. L. 100–371, title II, July 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 863. Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title II], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–115. Pub. L. 99–500, § 101(e) [title II], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–194, 1783–201, and Pub. L. 99–591, § 101(e) [title II], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–194, 3341–201. Pub. L. 99–141, title II, Nov. 1, 1985, 99 Stat. 568.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 618d

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102