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Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDSChapter 12 - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Subchapter XI - MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
Section 499 - Discretionary power to transfer management

43 U.S.C. § 499

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Current through P.L. 118-47 (published on www.congress.gov on 03/23/2024)
Section 499 - Discretionary power to transfer management

Whenever any legally organized water-users' association or irrigation district shall so request, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to such water-users' association or irrigation district the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

43 U.S.C. § 499

Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, §5, 38 Stat. 687.

EDITORIAL NOTES

CODIFICATIONSection is comprised of part of first sentence of section 5 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of first sentence and second sentence of such section 5 are classified to section 492 of this title.