§ 590z-4. — Cooperative agreements with other agencies.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC590z-4]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3C--WATER CONSERVATION
SUBCHAPTER II--CONSERVATION AND UTILIZATION PROJECTS
Sec. 590z-4. Cooperative agreements with other agencies
The Secretary, by cooperative agreements, may arrange with the
Department of Agriculture or with such other Federal or State agencies,
as the President may deem desirable, for cooperation in the
investigations and surveys of projects proposed under the authority of
this subchapter; and in connection with any such project which is
undertaken the Secretary by such cooperative agreements may arrange for
such cooperation in the construction or operation and maintenance of the
project as he deems desirable. Any such cooperative agreement with the
Department of Agriculture may provide, among other things (1) that the
Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into the repayment contracts,
required by section 590z-2 of this title and shall handle the
collections of repayments and shall take over the other administrative
duties connected with the project, after the Secretary of the Interior
announces that the project is ready for operation; (2) if such agreement
be entered into after construction of the project has been undertaken by
the Secretary of the Interior and after he has entered into the
repayment contracts required by section 590z-2 of this title, that the
Secretary of Agriculture shall take over the collection of repayments
and other administrative duties connected with the project; (3) that no
water shall be delivered to or for any land or party while the owner of
said land or said party is in arrears for more than twelve months in the
payment to the United States of money due and payable under a land
contract entered into pursuant to section 590z-3(a) of this title; and
(4) that any repayment contract with a water user or water users'
organization entered into pursuant to section 590z-2 of this title and
any land contract with the same water user or organization entered into
pursuant to section 590z-3(a) of this title, if said contracts involve
the same land, may be combined in a single instrument. The Secretary of
Agriculture is authorized to carry out the provision of any such
cooperative agreements.
(Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 717, Sec. 6, as added Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 861, 54
Stat. 1123.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 590z-1 of this title.
