Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3C — Water Conservation
§ 590z. Utilization of services, materials, funds, etc., of Federal, State, or municipal agencies, or of individuals
Statutory text
In connection with the investigation, construction, or operation and maintenance of a project, pursuant to the authority of this subchapter, the Secretary is authorized to utilize (1) in such manner as the President may direct, services, labor, materials, or other property, including money, supplied by the Work Projects Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Office of Indian Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, or any other Federal agency, for which the United States shall be reimbursed in such amounts as the President may fix for each project, within the limits of the water users’ ability to repay costs as found by the Secretary under section 590z–1(a)(iv) of this title; and (2) such services, labor, materials, easements or property, including money, as may be contributed by any State or political subdivision thereof, State agency, municipal corporation, or other organization, or individuals, if, in the judgment of the Secretary, the acceptance thereof will not impair the title of the United States to the project works and will not reduce the probability that the project water users can meet the obligations to the United States entered into pursuant to this subchapter. Moneys received and accepted under (2) of this section shall be and remain available for expenditure for the purposes for which contributed in like manner as if said sums had been specifically appropriated for said purposes.
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.
Pub. L. 76–717 § 2 · 53 Stat. 1418
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 590z
Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 2, 53 Stat. 1419
Source evidence
Code source credit
Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 2, 53 Stat. 1419Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. Any moneys expended on such construction from appropriations Reimbursement of expenditures by water users. made under the authority of this Act shall be repaid to the United States by the water users in not to exceed forty annual installments. Any labor or materials supplied for such construction Labor and materials. by the Work Projects Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, or any other Federal agency shall be utilized in such manner as the President may determine, and for such labor and materials the water users shall reimburse the United States in such amounts and on such terms as the President may fix for each project.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1940—Act , reenacted section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Federal Works Agency transferred to General Services Administration by act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, § 103, 63 Stat. 380. See Historical and Revision Notes under section 303(b) of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. Section 303(b) of Title 40 was amended generally by Pub. L. 109–313, § 2(a)(1), , 120 Stat. 1734, and, as so amended, no longer relates to the Federal Works Agency and Commissioner of Public Buildings. See 2006 Amendment note under section 303 of Title 40.
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was redesignated Department of Health and Human Services by section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Drainage Facilities and Minor Construction
Contracts with repayment organizations for construction of drainage facilities and minor items in irrigation works, see section 505 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Works Projects Administration and its functions transferred to Federal Works Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1939, §§ 301, 306, eff. , 4 F.R. 2729, 53 Stat. 1426, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
Civilian Conservation Corps and its functions consolidated with other agencies under Federal Security Agency, to be administered by Director of Corps under direction and supervision of Federal Security Administration by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1939, §§ 201, 207, eff. , 4 F.R. 2728, 2729, 53 Stat. 1425, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
Federal Security Agency was abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, and its functions transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953.
Credits
1939–1940 · 2 acts
- 1939Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 2, 53 Stat. 1419
- 1940Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1120.
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(Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, § 2, 53 Stat. 1419; Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54 Stat. 1120.)