§ 397. — Advances by Government for completion of projects initiated prior to June 25, 1910.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC397]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER II--RECLAMATION FUND GENERALLY
Sec. 397. Advances by Government for completion of projects
initiated prior to June 25, 1910
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete Government
reclamation projects begun prior to June 25, 1910, the Secretary of the
Treasury is authorized, as of June 25, 1910, upon request of the
Secretary of the Interior, to transfer from time to time to the credit
of the reclamation fund created by section 391 of this title, such sum
or sums, not exceeding in the aggregate $20,000,000, as the Secretary of
the Interior may deem necessary to complete the said reclamation
projects, and such extensions thereof as he may deem proper and
necessary to the successful and profitable operation and maintenance
thereof or to protect water rights pertaining thereto claimed by the
United States, provided the same shall be approved by the President of
the United States; and such sum or sums as may be required to comply
with the foregoing authority are appropriated, as of June 25, 1910, out
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That
the sums authorized to be transferred to the reclamation fund shall be
so transferred only as such sums shall be actually needed to meet
payments for work performed under existing law: And provided further,
That all sums so transferred shall be reimbursed to the Treasury from
the reclamation fund, as hereinafter provided: And provided further,
That no part of this appropriation shall be expended upon any project
existing June 25, 1910, until it shall have been examined and reported
upon by a board of engineer officers of the Army, designated by the
President of the United States, and until it shall be approved by the
President as feasible and practicable and worthy of such expenditure;
nor shall any portion of this appropriation be expended upon any project
initiated after June 25, 1910.
(June 25, 1910, ch. 407, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 835.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 391a-1, 398, 400 of this
title.
