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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 40 — Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief

§ 2245. Excess storage and carrying capacity

Statutory text

The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts with municipalities, public water districts and agencies, other Federal agencies, State agencies, and private entities, pursuant to the Act of (43 U.S.C. 523), for the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, fish and wildlife, industrial, and other beneficial purposes using any facilities associated with the Central Valley Project, Cachuma Project, and the Ventura River Project, California, the Truckee Storage Project, and the Washoe Project, California and Nevada. The Secretary is further authorized to enter into contracts for the exchange of water for the aforementioned purposes using facilities associated with the Cachuma Project, California.

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. Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991

    Pub. L. 102–250 title III § 305 · 106 Stat. 53

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 2245

    (Pub. L. 102–250, title III, § 305, Mar. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 59.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 102–250, title III, § 305, Mar. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 59.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 305. EXCESS STORAGE AND CARRYING CAPACITY. The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts with municipalities, public water districts and agencies, other Federal agencies, State agencies, and private entities, pursuant to the Act of February 21, 1911 (43 U.S.C. 523),’ for the impounding, storage, and carriage of non-project water for domestic, municipal, fish and wildlife, industrial, and other beneficial purposes using any facilities associated with the Central Valley Project, Cachuma Project, and the Ventura River Project, California, the Truckee Storage Project, and the Washoe Project, California and Nevada. The Secretary is further authorized to enter into contracts for the exchange of water for the aforementioned purposes using facilities associated with the Cachuma Project, California.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Act of , referred to in text, is act Feb. 21, 1911, ch. 141, 36 Stat. 925, popularly known as the Warren Act, which enacted sections 523 to 525 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 523 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 102–250, title III, § 305, , 106 Stat. 59.)

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