§ 485. Declaration of policy

Statutory text

For the purpose of providing for United States reclamation projects a feasible and comprehensive plan for an economical and equitable treatment of repayment problems and for variable payments of construction charges which can be met regularly and fully from year to year during periods of decline in agricultural income and unsatisfactory conditions of agriculture as well as during periods of prosperity and good prices for agricultural products, and which will protect adequately the financial interest of the United States in said projects, obligations to pay construction charges may be revised or undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.

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.

1939
Pub. L. 76–418 § 1 · 53 Stat. 1187
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 485
(Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, § 1, 53 Stat. 1187.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, § 1, 53 Stat. 1187.)
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) the engineering feasibility of the proposed construction;

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, 53 Stat. 1187, known as the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, which enacted this subchapter, sections 375a, 380a, and 387 to 389 of this title and section 16d of former Title 41, Public Contracts, and enacted provision set out as a note under section 485j of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 485k of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, § 1, 53 Stat. 1187.)