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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 396. Return of contributions to cooperative investigations of projects

Statutory text

On and after , the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to receive moneys from any State, municipality, irrigation district, individual, or other interest, public or private, expend the same in connection with moneys appropriated by the United States for any cooperative investigation of the feasibility of reclamation projects, and return to the contributor any moneys so contributed in excess of the actual cost of that portion of the work properly chargeable to the contribution.

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. Pub. L. 68–4 § 1 · 43 Stat. 672

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 396

    (Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 1, 43 Stat. 685.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 1, 43 Stat. 685.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 1, 43 Stat. 685.)

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