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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 29 — Water Bank Program for Wetlands Preservation

§ 1310. Authorization of appropriations; maximum amount of payments pursuant to agreements

Statutory text

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program authorized by this chapter. In carrying out the program, in each fiscal year through the fiscal year ending , the Secretary shall not enter into agreements with owners and operators which would require payments to owners or operators in any calendar year under such agreements in excess of $10,000,000. In carrying out the program, in each fiscal year after the fiscal year ending , the Secretary shall not enter into agreements with owners and operators which would require payments to owners or operators in any calendar year under such agreements in excess of $30,000,000. Not more than 15 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year after the fiscal year ending , may be used for agreements entered into with owners or operators in any one State.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Water Bank Act

    Pub. L. 91–559 § 11 · 84 Stat. 1468

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 1310

    Pub. L. 91–559, § 11, Dec. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 1471

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 91–559, § 11, Dec. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 1471

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 11. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated without Appropriation. fiscal year limitation, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program authorized by this Act. In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall not enter into agreements with owners and operators which would require payments to owners or operators in any calendar year under such agreements in excess of $10,000,000.

  2. Pub. L. 96–182 § 4 · 93 Stat. 1317

    Inserted · 16 U.S.C. § 1310

    Pub. L. 96–182 limited restrictions on Secretary’s authority to enter into agreements in excess of $10,000,000 to each fiscal year through fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1980, and inserted restrictions relating to agreements in excess of $30,000,000 for each fiscal year after fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1980, and that not more than 15 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year after fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1980, may be used for agreements entered into with owners or operators in any one State

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 96–182 limited restrictions on Secretary’s authority to enter into agreements in excess of $10,000,000 to each fiscal year through fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1980, and inserted restrictions relating to agreements in excess of $30,000,000 for each fiscal year after fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1980, and that not more than 15 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year after fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1980, may be used for agreements entered into with owners or operators in any one State.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. Section 11 of the Water Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1310) is amended by— (1) inserting after “program,” in the second sentence the following: “in each fiscal year through the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980,”; and (2) adding at the end thereof two new sentences as follows: “In carrying out the program, in each fiscal year after the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, the Secretary shall not enter into agreements with owners and operators which would require payments to owners or operators in any calendar year under such agreements in excess of $30,000,000. Not more than 15 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year after the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, may be used for agreements entered into with owners or operators in any one State.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–182 limited restrictions on Secretary’s authority to enter into agreements in excess of $10,000,000 to each fiscal year through fiscal year ending , and inserted restrictions relating to agreements in excess of $30,000,000 for each fiscal year after fiscal year ending , and that not more than 15 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated in any fiscal year after fiscal year ending , may be used for agreements entered into with owners or operators in any one State.

Credits

1970–1980 · 2 acts
  1. 1970Pub. L. 91–559, § 11, , 84 Stat. 1471
  2. 1980Pub. L. 96–182, § 4, , 93 Stat. 1317.
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(Pub. L. 91–559, § 11, , 84 Stat. 1471; Pub. L. 96–182, § 4, , 93 Stat. 1317.)

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