[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC597]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XVII--LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY
Sec. 597. Riverton project, Wyoming
Lands within and in the vicinity of the ceded portion of the Wind
River or Shoshone Reservation, and included in the Riverton project,
Wyoming, shall be subject to all the charges, terms, conditions,
provisions, and limitations of the reclamation Act and Acts amendatory
thereof or supplementary thereto, and suitable provision shall be made
by the Secretary of the Interior in fixing the charges to provide for
reimbursement of the entire expenditure in accordance with the
reclamation law and other laws applicable to said lands.
When any land on the project is opened to homestead entry under the
terms of the ``Reclamation Law'', the entryman shall pay to the United
States for the lands the sum of $1.50 per acre as provided in section 2
of the Act approved March 3, 1905 (volume 33, Statutes at Large, page
1016), to be credited to the fund established by said Act of 1905,
together with the proceeds from the sale of town sites established in
said project under the ``Reclamation Law''.
(June 5, 1920, ch. 235, 41 Stat. 915; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, 41 Stat.
1404.)
References in Text
References to the reclamation Act, the reclamation law, and the
``Reclamation Law'', in text, probably mean act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093,
32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which
is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of
this title and Tables.
Act of March 3, 1905, referred to in text, is act Mar. 3, 1905, ch.
1452, 33 Stat. 1016, which is not classified to the Code.
Restoration of Lands to Public Domain
Act Aug. 15, 1953, ch. 509, Sec. 2, 67 Stat. 612, set out as a note
under section 611 of Title 25, Indians, provided that unentered and
vacant lands of the Riverton reclamation project within the ceded
portion of the Wind River Indian Reservation should be restored to the
public domain for administration, use, occupancy, and
