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43 U.S.C. § 388 — Contracts for materials; liability of United States
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When appropriations have been made for the commencement or continuation of construction or operation and maintenance of any project, the Secretary may, in connection with such construction or operation and maintenance, enter into contracts for miscellaneous services, for materials and supplies, as well as for construction, which may cover such periods of time as the Secretary may consider necessary but in which the liability of the United States shall be contingent upon appropriations being made therefor.
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When appropriations have been made for the commencement or continuation of construction or operation and maintenance of any project, the Secretary may, in connection with such construction or operation and maintenance, enter into contracts for miscellaneous services, for materials and supplies, as well as for construction, which may cover such periods of time as the Secretary may consider necessary but in which the liability of the United States shall be contingent upon appropriations being made therefor.
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As used in this subchapter—
**(a)** The term “Federal reclamation laws” shall mean the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.
**(b)** The term “Secretary” shall mean the Secretary of the Interior.
**(c)** The term “project” shall mean any reclamation or irrigation project, including incidental features thereof, authorized by the Federal reclamation laws, or constructed by the United States pursuant to said laws, or in connection with which there is a repayment contract executed by the United States, pursuant to said laws, or any project constructed or operated and maintained by the Secretary through the Bureau of Reclamation for the reclamation of arid lands or other purposes.
**(d)** The term “construction charges” shall mean the amounts of principal obligations payable to the United States under water-right applications, repayment contracts, orders of the Secretary, or other forms of obligation entered into pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws, excepting amounts payable for water rental or power charges, operation and maintenance and other yearly service charges, and excepting also any other operation and maintenance, interest, or other charges which are not covered into the principal sums of the construction accounts of the Bureau of Reclamation.
**(e)** The term “repayment contract” shall mean any contract providing for payment of construction charges to the United States.
**(f)** The term “project contract unit” shall mean a project or any substantial area of a project which is covered or is proposed to be covered by a repayment contract. On any project where two or more repayment contracts in part cover the same area and in part different areas, the area covered by each such repayment contract shall
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 388
quirements therefor, is authorized to make such
provision as he deems to be necessary and in the
public interest for the education of dependents
of persons employed on the actual construction
of projects or features of projects, by the Bureau
of Reclamation, in any cases in which he finds
that by reason of such construction activity, an
undue burden is, or will be cast upon the facili-
ties of the public-school districts serving the
areas in which construction is being under-
taken, and to pay for the same from any funds
available for the construction of said projects:
Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior
shall enter into cooperative arrangements with
local school districts wherein such features are
situated to contribute toward covering the cost
of furnishing the educational services required
for such dependents, or for the operation by
those school districts of Government facilities,
or for the expansion of local school facilities.
Such cost incurred hereunder shall be charged
to the project concerned and shall be repayable
in the same manner and to the same extent as
are its other costs of construction.
(June 29, 1948, ch. 733, § 1, 62 Stat. 1108.)
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees,
and agencies of Department of the Interior, with cer-
tain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with
power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2,
eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under
section 1451 of this title.
§ 385b. Repealed. Pub. L. 86–533, § 1(18), June 29,
1960, 74 Stat. 248
Section, act June 29, 1948, ch. 733, § 2, 62 Stat. 1108, re-
lated to reports to Congress of all activities undertaken
pursuant to
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