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43 U.S.C. § 620c — Laws governing; irrigation repayment contracts; time for making contract; contracts for municipal water; payment by Indian lands; restricted delivery of water for excess commodity; apportionments of use
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, in constructing, operating, and maintaining the units of the Colorado River storage project and the participating projects listed in [section 620 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto): Provided, That (a) irrigation repayment contracts shall be entered into which, except as otherwise provided for the Paonia and Eden projects, provide for repayment of the obligation assumed thereunder with respect to any project contract unit over a period of not more than fifty years exclusive of any development period authorized by law; (b) prior to construction of irrigation distribution facilities, repayment contracts shall be made with an “organization” as defined in [section 485a(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485a/g&num=0&edition=prelim) which has the capacity to levy assessments upon all taxable real property located within its boundaries to assist in making repayments, except where a substantial proportion of the lands to be served are owned by the United States; (c) contracts relating to municipal water supply may be made without regard to the limitations of the last sentence of [section 485h(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485h/c&num=0&edition=prelim); and (d), as to Indian lands within, under or served by any participating project, payment of construction costs within the capability of the land to repay shall be subject to [section 386a of title 25](https://uscode.house.gov/view
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, in constructing, operating, and maintaining the units of the Colorado River storage project and the participating projects listed in [section 620 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto): Provided, That (a) irrigation repayment contracts shall be entered into which, except as otherwise provided for the Paonia and Eden projects, provide for repayment of the obligation assumed thereunder with respect to any project contract unit over a period of not more than fifty years exclusive of any development period authorized by law; (b) prior to construction of irrigation distribution facilities, repayment contracts shall be made with an “organization” as defined in [section 485a(g) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485a/g&num=0&edition=prelim) which has the capacity to levy assessments upon all taxable real property located within its boundaries to assist in making repayments, except where a substantial proportion of the lands to be served are owned by the United States; (c) contracts relating to municipal water supply may be made without regard to the limitations of the last sentence of [section 485h(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section485h/c&num=0&edition=prelim); and (d), as to Indian lands within, under or served by any participating project, payment of construction costs within the capability of the land to repay shall be subject to [section 386a of title 25](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section386a&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided further, That for a period of ten years from April 11, 1956, no water from any participating project authorized by this chapter shall be delivered to any water user for the production on newly irrigated lands of any basic agricultural commodity, as defined in the Agricultural Act of 1949 [[7 U.S.C. 1421](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1421&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or any amendment thereof, if the total supply of such commodity for the marketing year in which the bulk of the crop would normally be marketed is in excess of the normal supply as defined in [section 1301(b)(10) of title 7](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1301/b/10&num=0&edition=prelim) unless the Secretary of Agriculture calls for an increase in production of such commodity in the interest of national security. All units and participating projects shall be subject to the apportionments of the use of water between the Upper and Lower Basins of the Colorado River and among the States of the Upper Basin fixed in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, and to the terms of the treaty with the United Mexican States (Treaty Series 994).
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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to adjust or eliminate reimbursable charges of the Government of the United States existing as debts against individual Indians or tribes of Indians in such a way as shall be equitable and just in consideration of all the circumstances under which such charges were made: Provided, That the collection of all construction costs against any Indian-owned lands within any Government irrigation project is hereby deferred, and no assessments shall be made on behalf of such charges against such lands until the Indian title thereto shall have been extinguished, and any construction assessments heretofore levied against such lands in accordance with the provisions of [section 386 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section386&num=0&edition=prelim), and uncollected, are hereby canceled: Provided further, That the Secretary shall report such adjustments and eliminations to the Congress not later than sixty calendar days following the end of the fiscal year in which they are made: Provided further, That any proceedings hereunder shall not be effective until approved by Congress unless Congress shall have failed to act favorably or unfavorably thereon by concurrent resolution within ninety calendar days after the filing of said report, in which case they shall become effective at the termination of the said ninety calendar days: Provided further, That the Secretary shall adjust or eliminate charges, defer collection of construction costs, and make no assessment on behalf of such charges for beneficiaries that hold leases on Hawaiian home lands, to the same extent as is permitted for individual Indians or tribes of Indians under this section.
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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) Source** The Secretary shall provide the price support authorized or required herein through the Commodity Credit Corporation and other means available to him.
**(b) Authority of Secretary; factors considered** Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the amounts, terms, and conditions of price support operations and the extent to which such operations are carried out, shall be determined or approved by the Secretary. The following factors shall be taken into consideration in determining, in the case of any commodity for which price support is discretionary, whether a price-support operation shall be undertaken and the level of such support and, in the case of any commodity for which price support is mandatory, the level of support in excess of the minimum level prescribed for such commodity: (1) the supply of the commodity in relation to the demand therefor, (2) the price levels at which other commodities are being supported and, in the case of feed grains, the feed values of such grains in relation to corn, (3) the availability of funds, (4) the perishability of the commodity, (5) the importance of the commodity to agriculture and the national economy, (6) the ability to dispose of stocks acquired through a price-support operation, (7) the need for offsetting temporary losses of export markets, (8) the ability and willingness of producers to keep supplies in line with demand and (9), in the case of upland cotton, changes in the cost of producing such cotton.
**(c) Compliance by producer; program for diverted acres** Compliance by the producer with acreage allotments, production goals and marketing practices (including marketing quotas when authorized by law), prescribed by the Secretary, may be required as a condition of eligibility for price support. In admi
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In order to initiate the comprehensive development of the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin, for the purposes, among others, of regulating the flow of the Colorado River, storing water for beneficial consumptive use, making it possible for the States of the Upper Basin to utilize, consistently with the provisions of the Colorado River Compact, the apportionments made to and among them in the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, respectively, providing for the reclamation of arid and semiarid land, for the control of floods, and for the generation of hydroelectric power, as an incident of the foregoing purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized (1) to construct, operate, and maintain the following initial units of the Colorado River storage project, consisting of dams, reservoirs, powerplants, transmission facilities and appurtenant works: Wayne N. Aspinall, Flaming Gorge, Navajo (dam and reservoir only), and Glen Canyon: Provided, That the Wayne N. Aspinall Dam shall be constructed to a height which will impound not less than nine hundred and forty thousand acre-feet of water or will create a reservoir of such greater capacity as can be obtained by a high waterline located at seven thousand five hundred and twenty feet above mean sea level, and that construction thereof shall not be undertaken until the Secretary has, on the basis of further engineering and economic investigations, reexamined the economic justification of such unit and, accompanied by appropriate documentation in the form of a supplemental report, has certified to the Congress and to the President that, in his judgment, the benefits of such unit will exceed its costs; and (2) to construct, operate, and maintain the following additional reclamation
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In carrying out further investigations of projects under the Federal reclamation laws in the Upper Colorado River Basin, the Secretary shall give priority to completion of planning reports on the Gooseberry, Eagle Divide, Bluestone, Battlement Mesa, Grand Mesa, Yellow Jacket, Basalt, Middle Park (including the Troublesome, Rabbit Ear, and Azure units), Upper Gunnison (including the East River, Ohio Creek, and Tomichi Creek units), Lower Yampa (including the Juniper and Great Northern units), Upper Yampa (including the Hayden Mesa, Wessels, and Toponas units) and Sublette (including a diversion of water from the Green River to the North Platte River Basin Wyoming), Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah Project, San Juan County (Utah), Price River, Grand County (Utah), Gray Canyon, and Juniper (Utah) participating projects: Provided, That the planning report for the Ute Indian unit of the Central Utah participating project shall be completed on or before December 31, 1974, to enable the United States of America to meet the commitments heretofore made to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation under the agreement dated September 20, 1965 (Contract Numbered 14–06–W–194). Said reports shall be completed as expeditiously as funds are made available therefor and shall be submitted promptly to the affected States, which in the case of the San Juan-Chama project shall include the State of Texas, and thereafter to the President and the Congress: Provided, That with reference to the plans and specifications for the San Juan-Chama project, the storage for control and regulation of water imported from the San Juan River shall (1) be limited to a single offstream dam and reservoir on a tributary of the Chama River, (2) be used solely for control and regulation
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The Secretary is directed to proceed as nearly as practicable with the construction of the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, and San Miguel participating Federal reclamation projects concurrently with the construction of the Central Arizona Project, to the end that such projects shall be completed not later than the date of the first delivery of water from said Central Arizona Project: Provided, That an appropriate repayment contract for each of said participating projects shall have been executed as provided in [section 620c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620c&num=0&edition=prelim) before construction shall start on that particular project.
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**(a) Authorization and availability** There is authorized a separate fund in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Basin Fund), which shall remain available until expended, as hereafter provided, for carrying out provisions of this chapter other than [section 620g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620g&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Crediting of appropriations** All appropriations made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, other than [section 620g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620g&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be credited to the Basin Fund as advances from the general fund of the Treasury.
**(c) Crediting and availability of revenues** All revenues collected in connection with the operation of the Colorado River storage project and participating projects shall be credited to the Basin Fund, and shall be available, without further appropriation, for (1) defraying the costs of operation, maintenance, and replacements of, and emergency expenditures for, all facilities of the Colorado River storage project and participating projects, within such separate limitations as may be included in annual appropriation acts: Provided, That with respect to each participating project, such costs shall be paid from revenues received from each such project; (2) payment as required by subsection (d) of this section; and (3) payment as required by subsection (e) of this section. Revenues credited to the Basin Fund shall not be available for appropriation for construction of the units and participating projects authorized by or pursuant to this chapter.
**(d) Payments of
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 620c
Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West
Divide, and San Miguel participating Federal
reclamation projects concurrently with the con-
struction of the Central Arizona Project, to the
end that such projects shall be completed not
later than the date of the first delivery of water
from said Central Arizona Project: Provided,
That an appropriate repayment contract for
each of said participating projects shall have
been executed as provided in section 620c of this
title before construction shall start on that par-
ticular project.
(Pub. L. 90–537, title V, § 501(b), Sept. 30, 1968, 82
Stat. 897.)
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CODIFICATION
Section consists of subsec. (b) of section 501 of Pub.
L. 90–537. Subsecs. (a), (d), and (e) of section 501 are
classified to sections 620, 620 note, 620a, 620a–2, 620c–1,
and 620k note of this title. Subsec. (c) and (f) of section
501 are not classified to the Code.
Section was enacted as part of the Colorado River
Basin Project Act, and not as part of act Apr. 11, 1956,
popularly known as the Colorado River Storage Project
Act, which comprises this chapter.
§ 620a–2. Establishment of nonexcess irrigable
acreage for participating projects
The Secretary shall, for the Animas-La Plata,
Dolores, Dallas Creek, San Miguel, West Divide,
and Seedskadee participating projects of the
Colorado River storage project, establish the
nonexcess irrigable acreage for which any single
ownership may receive project water at one hun-
dred and sixty acres of class 1 land or the equiv-
alent thereof, as determined by the Secretary,
in other land classes.
(Pub. L. 90–537, title V, § 501(d), Sept. 30, 1968, 82
Stat. 898.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section consists of subsec. (d) of section 501 of
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TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE
§ 1421
Sec.
1430.
Retroactive effect.
1431.
Disposition of commodities to prevent
waste.
1431a.
Cotton donations to educational institu-
tions.
1431b.
Distribution of surplus commodities to
other United States areas.
1431c.
Enrichment and packaging of cornmeal,
grits, rice, and white flour available
for distribution.
1431d.
Donations for school feeding programs
abroad; student financing; priorities.
1431e.
Distribution of surplus commodities to
special nutrition projects; reprocessing
agreements with private companies.
1431f.
Assistance to foreign countries to miti-
gate effects of HIV and AIDS.
1432.
Extension of price support on long staple
cotton seeds and products.
1433.
Repealed.
1433a.
Forgiveness of violations; determina-
tions.
1433b.
Processing of surplus agricultural com-
modities into liquid fuels and agricul-
tural commodity byproducts.
1433c.
Advance recourse commodity loans.
1433c–1.
Advance recourse loans.
1433d to 1433f. Omitted or Repealed.
1434.
Encouragement of production of crops of
which United States is a net importer
and for which price support programs
are not in effect; authority to plant on
set-aside acreage with no reduction in
payment rate.
1435.
Production of commodities for conver-
sion into alcohol or hydrocarbons for
use as motor fuels or other fuels; terms
and conditions; determinations; pay-
ments, etc., for program.
1436.
Reimbursement of appropriations avail-
able for classing or grading agriculture
commodities without charge.
1436a.
Transfer of nonadministrative funds of
Commodity
Credit
Corporation
for
classing and grading purposes.
SUBCHAPTER II—BASIC AGRICULTURAL
COMMODITIES
1441.
Price support levels.
1441–1.
Omitted.
1441–1a.
Marketing
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