§ 499b. — Transfer to municipal corporations or other organizations of care, operation, and maintenance of work supplying water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC499b]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XI--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
Sec. 499b. Transfer to municipal corporations or other
organizations of care, operation, and maintenance of works
supplying water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use
Whenever a municipal corporation or other organization to which
water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use is furnished or
distributed under a contract entered into with the United States
pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws so requests, the Secretary of
the Interior is authorized to transfer to it or its nominee the care,
operation, and maintenance of the works by which such water supply is
made available or such part of those works as, in his judgment, is
appropriate in the circumstances, subject to such terms and conditions
as he may prescribe.
(Pub. L. 89-48, Sec. 2, June 24, 1965, 79 Stat. 172.)
References in Text
The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in text, include the act
of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the
Reclamation Act, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto,
classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of act
June 17, 1902, to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section
371 of this title and Tables.
