Volume 75
Public Law 87–170
To amend the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to permit certain new organizations to sponsor works of improvement thereunder.
Approved August 30, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to permit certain new organizations to sponsor works of improvement thereunder.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the last paragraph of section 2 of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: “; or any irrigation or reservoir company, water users’ association, or similar organization having such authority and not being operated for profit that may be approved by the Secretary”.
Approved August 30, 1961.