Volume 29
Public Law 54–335
To provide for the use and occupation of reservoir sites reserved.
Approved February 26, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the use and occupation of reservoir sites reserved.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all reservoir sites reserved or to be reserved shall be open to use and occupation under the right-of-way Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. And any State is hereby authorized to improve and occupy such reservoir sites to the same extent as an individual or private corporation, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the charges for water coming in whole or part from
Proviso.
Water charges.
reservoir sites used or occupied under the provisions of this Act shall always be subject to the control and regulation of the respective States and Territories in which such reservoirs are in whole or part situate.
Approved, .