Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 593a. Construction, operation, and maintenance of Hungry Horse Dam
Statutory text
For the purpose of irrigation and reclamation of arid lands, for controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the South Fork of the Flathead River, for the generation of electric energy, and for other beneficial uses primarily in the State of Montana but also in downstream areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to proceed as soon as practicable with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the proposed Hungry Horse Dam (including facilities for generating electric energy) on the South Fork of the Flathead River, Flathead County, Montana, to such a height as may be necessary to impound not less than one million acre-feet of water. The Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto).
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to complete, as soon as the necessary additional material is available, the construction of the Hungry Horse Dam so as to provide a storage reservoir of the maximum usable and feasible capacity.
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. 78–234 · 58 Stat. 270
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 593a
June 5, 1944, ch. 234, §§ 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 5, 1944, ch. 234, §§ 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270Pub. L. 85–428 · 72 Stat. 147
Changed · 43 U.S.C. § 593a
Pub. L. 85–428 provided that the Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 85–428 provided that the Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws.
0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Act of , referred to in text, is popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
Amendments
1958—Pub. L. 85–428 provided that the Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Authorization of Appropriations
Act June 5, 1944, ch. 234, § 4, 58 Stat. 271, authorized appropriation of such sums as might be necessary to carry out the purpose of this section and section 593b of this title.
Credits
1944–1958 · 2 acts
- 1944June 5, 1944, ch. 234, §§ 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270
- 1958Pub. L. 85–428, , 72 Stat. 147.
Show as published
(June 5, 1944, ch. 234, §§ 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270; Pub. L. 85–428, , 72 Stat. 147.)