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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 572. Disposition of net proceeds; fixing project construction charges

Statutory text

The net proceeds of such sales after deducting all expenditures on account of such lands, and the project construction charge, for the irrigable area of the lands so sold where irrigation or drainage works have been constructed or are proposed to be constructed, shall be disposed of as provided in section 501 of this title. Where the project construction charge shall not have been fixed at the date of any such sale, same shall be estimated by the Secretary of the Interior.

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. 70–541 § 2 · 45 Stat. 505

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 572

    (Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 541, § 2, 45 Stat. 1522.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 541, § 2, 45 Stat. 1522.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is Amendment. hereby expressly reserved.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 541, § 2, 45 Stat. 1522.)

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