§ 470. — When work increasing construction charge may be undertaken.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC470]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
Sec. 470. When work increasing construction charge may be
undertaken
No work shall be undertaken or expenditure made for any lands, for
which the construction charge has been fixed by public notice, which
work or expenditure shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of the
Interior, increase the construction cost above the construction charge
so fixed; unless and until valid and binding agreement to repay the cost
thereof shall have been entered into between the Secretary of the
Interior and the water-right applicants and entrymen affected by such
increased cost, as provided by section 469 of this title.
(Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 75, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 861.)
