Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 411. Surveys for, location, and construction of irrigation works generally
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make examinations and surveys for, and to locate and construct, as herein provided, irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters, including artesian wells.
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. 57–1093 § 2 · 32 Stat. 388
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 411
June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 2, 32 Stat. 388
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 2, 32 Stat. 388Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make examinations and surveys for, and to locate and construct, as herein provided, irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters, including artesian wells, and to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session as to the results of Estimates of cost. such examinations and surveys, giving estimates of cost of all contemplated works, the quantity and location of the lands which can be irrigated therefrom, and all facts relative to the practicability of each irrigation project; also the cost of works in process of construction as well as of those which have been completed.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Herein, referred to in text, means in act , popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of act , to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in acts Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 411, § 1, 25 Stat. 960; Oct. 2, 1888, ch. 1069, § 1, 25 Stat. 526.
Amendments
1946—Act , struck out provisions requiring annual reports to Congress as to results of those examinations and surveys.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act
Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.
Credits
1902–1946 · 2 acts
- 1902June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 2, 32 Stat. 388
- 1946Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, § 1(7), 60 Stat. 867.
Show as published
(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 2, 32 Stat. 388; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, § 1(7), 60 Stat. 867.)