43 U.S.C. § 391 | Establishment of “reclamation fund”

June 30, 1901All moneys received from the sale and disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, beginning with the fiscal year ending , including the surplus of fees and commissions in excess of allowances to officers designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and excepting the 5 per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the above States set aside by law for educational and other purposes, shall be, and the same are, reserved, set aside, and appropriated as a special fund in the Treasury to be known as the “reclamation fund”, to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semiarid lands in the said States and Territories, and for the payment of all other expenditures provided for in this Act.

1 So in original.

The provisions of the Act entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same are hereby, extended so as to include and apply to the State of Texas, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands..

June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 1 32 Stat. 388 June 12, 1906, ch. 3288 34 Stat. 259 Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1 42 Stat. 208 Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462 43 Stat. 1145July 16, 194660 Stat. 1100 Pub. L. 99–396, § 17Aug. 27, 1986100 Stat. 843( (part), ; , ; , ; , ; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, ; , , .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

June 17, 1902section 371 of this TitleThis Act, referred to in first par., and the Act entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, referred to in second par., are act , 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 and Tables.

Codification

June 17, 1902June 12, 1906The first paragraph of this section is comprised of act , and the second paragraph is comprised of act , as amended.

Amendments

Pub. L. 99–3961986— inserted reference to American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands in second par.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

section 1303 of this titleProvisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see .

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

May 24, 195064 Stat. 1262 section 1451 of this titleFor transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out under .

section 1 of this titleMar. 3, 1925Oct. 28, 1921Words “officers designated by the Secretary of the Interior” substituted for “registers” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under . Previously, references to register and receiver changed to register by acts , and , which consolidated offices of register and receiver and provided for a single officer to be known as register.