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43 U.S.C. § 600b — Canadian River project, Texas
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For the purposes of irrigating land, delivering water for industrial and municipal use, controlling floods, providing recreation and fish and wildlife benefits, and controlling and catching silt, the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Canadian River reclamation project, Texas, described in the report of the Commissioner of Reclamation approved by the Secretary May 3, 1950, entitled “Plan for Development, Canadian River Project, Texas”, Project Planning Report Number 5–12.22–1, at an estimated cost of $86,656,000, the impounding works whereof shall be located at a suitable site on the Canadian River in that area known as the Panhandle of Texas. In addition to the impounding works, the project shall include such main canals, pumping plants, distribution and drainage systems, and other works as are necessary to accomplish the purposes of sections 600b and 600c of this title. The use by the project of waters arising in Ute and Pajarito Creeks, New Mexico, shall be only such use as does not conflict with use, present or potential, of such waters for beneficial consumptive purposes in New Mexico.
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For the purposes of irrigating land, delivering water for industrial and municipal use, controlling floods, providing recreation and fish and wildlife benefits, and controlling and catching silt, the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Canadian River reclamation project, Texas, described in the report of the Commissioner of Reclamation approved by the Secretary May 3, 1950, entitled “Plan for Development, Canadian River Project, Texas”, Project Planning Report Number 5–12.22–1, at an estimated cost of $86,656,000, the impounding works whereof shall be located at a suitable site on the Canadian River in that area known as the Panhandle of Texas. In addition to the impounding works, the project shall include such main canals, pumping plants, distribution and drainage systems, and other works as are necessary to accomplish the purposes of sections 600b and 600c of this title. The use by the project of waters arising in Ute and Pajarito Creeks, New Mexico, shall be only such use as does not conflict with use, present or potential, of such waters for beneficial consumptive purposes in New Mexico.
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When used in sections 371, 376, 377, 412, 417, 433, 462, 466, 478, 493, 494, 500, 501, and 526 of this title—
**(a)** The word “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior.
**(b)** The words “reclamation law” mean the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
**(c)** The words “reclamation fund” mean the fund provided by the reclamation law.
**(d)** The word “project” means a Federal irrigation project authorized by the reclamation law.
**(e)** The words “division of a project” mean a substantial irrigable area of a project designated as a division by order of the Secretary.
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**(a) Construction, operation, and maintenance costs** Notwithstanding any recommendations in the report mentioned in [section 600b of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section600b&num=0&edition=prelim) to the contrary, only the costs of construction allocable to flood control and, upon approval by the President of a suitable plan thereof, to the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, and operation and maintenance costs allocable to the same purposes, shall be nonreimbursable.
**(b) Conditions precedent to construction** Actual construction of the project herein authorized shall not be commenced, and no construction contract awarded therefor, until (1) the Congress shall have consented to the interstate compact between the States of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas agreed upon by the Canadian River Compact Commission at Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 6, 1950, in conformity with Public Law 491, Eighty-first Congress, and (2) repayment of that portion of the actual cost of constructing the project which is allocated to municipal and industrial water supply and of interest on the unamortized balance thereof at a rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of the Treasury) equal to the average rate paid by the United States on its long-term loans outstanding at the time the repayment contract is negotiated minus the amount of such net revenues as may be derived from temporary water supply contracts or from other sources prior to the close of the repayment period, shall have been assured by a contract satisfactory to the Secretary, with one central repayment contract organization, the term of which shall not exceed fifty years from the date of completion of the municipal and industrial water supply features
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall administer the recreation area in accordance with this Act and the provisions of law generally applicable to units of the national park system, including the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; [16 U.S.C. 1](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1&num=0&edition=prelim), 2–4),11 See References in Text note below. and the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 885).1 In the administration of such recreation area, the Secretary may utilize such statutory authority as may be available to him for the protection of natural and cultural resources as he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
**(b) Operation of Canadian River Project** Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect or interfere with the authority of the Secretary under the Act of December 29, 1950 (Public Law 81–898; [43 U.S.C. 600b](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section600b&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.), to operate Sanford Dam and Lake Meredith in accordance with and for the purposes set forth in that Act.
**(c) Land acquisition** Within the boundary of the recreation area, the Secretary may acquire lands and interests in lands by purchase with donated or appropriated funds, exchange, or transfer without reimbursement from any Federal agency.
**(d) Cultural resources** The Secretary shall conduct a survey of the cultural resources in the immediate vicinity of the recreation area. The Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with public or private entities, including landowners, for the purpose of conducting the survey required by this subsection. Not later than three years aft
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 600b
(Sept. 18, 1922, ch. 323, 42 Stat. 847.)
§ 599. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act Aug. 17, 1916, ch. 349, 39 Stat. 516, pro-
vided that any person who established residence and
made improvements on land within Yuma reclamation
project for two years prior to August 17, 1916, should
have right to make entry for the farm unit and have
residence and improvements credited on his final proof.
§ 600. Minidoka project, Idaho; sales of water
from American Falls Reservoir
No contractor shall secure a right to the use of
water from American Falls Reservoir, Minidoka
project, except under a contract containing the
provision that the contractor shall, as a part of
the construction cost, pay interest at the rate of
six per centum per annum upon the contractor’s
proper proportionate share, as found by the Sec-
retary of the Interior, of the moneys advanced
by the United States on account of the construc-
tion of said reservoir prior to the date of the
contract.
(June 5, 1924, ch. 264, 43 Stat. 417.)
§ 600a. Arch Hurley Conservancy District project,
New Mexico
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to
construct a Federal reclamation project for the
irrigation of the lands of the Arch Hurley Con-
servancy District in New Mexico under the Fed-
eral reclamation laws: Provided, That construc-
tion work is not to be initiated on said irriga-
tion project until (a) the project shall have been
found to be feasible under section 412 of this
title, but the project may be found to be finan-
cially feasible if the Secretary of the Interior
finds that the amount to be expended from the
reclamation fund can be repaid by the District,
and further that the amount of money to be ex-
pended from the reclamation fun
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