Volume 50 · 842
Public Law 75–827
To authorize an appropriation for the construction of small reservoirs under the Federal reclamation laws.
Approved August 26, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize an appropriation for the construction of small reservoirs under the Federal reclamation laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That from the
Reclamation fund.
Appropriation authorized for construction of small storage reservoirs.
special fund in the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June 17, 1902, and therein designated “The Reclamation Fund”, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000 for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior, under the Federal reclamation laws, in the construction of small storage reservoirs at such locations within the States subject to the Federal
Cost limitation.
reclamations laws, as the said Secretary may select, no reservoir to be constructed hereunder the estimated cost of which exceeds $50,000.
Approved, August 26, 1937.