[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC600a]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XVII--LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY
Sec. 600a. Arch Hurley Conservancy District project, New Mexico
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct a Federal
reclamation project for the irrigation of the lands of the Arch Hurley
Conservancy District in New Mexico under the Federal reclamation laws:
Provided, That construction work is not to be initiated on said
irrigation project until (a) the project shall have been found to be
feasible under section 412 of this title, but the project may be found
to be financially feasible if the Secretary of the Interior finds that
the amount to be expended from the reclamation fund can be repaid by the
District, and further that the amount of money to be expended from the
reclamation fund, plus the amount of money which has been made available
from other sources (for the estimated period of construction), equals
the estimated cost of construction; (b) a contract shall have been
executed with an irrigation or conservation district embracing the land
to be irrigated under said project, which contract shall obligate the
contracting district to repay the cost of construction of said project
met by expenditure of moneys from the reclamation fund in forty equal
annual installments, without interest; (c) contracts shall have been
made with each owner of more than one hundred and sixty irrigable acres
under said project, by which he, his successors, and assigns shall be
obligated to sell all of his land in excess of one hundred and sixty
irrigable acres at or below prices fixed by the Secretary of the
Interior and within the time to be fixed by said Secretary, no water to
be furnished to the land of any such large landowner refusing or failing
to execute such contract.
(Aug. 2, 1937, ch. 557, 50 Stat. 557; Apr. 9, 1938, ch. 134, 52 Stat.
211; Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 637, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 556.)
References in Text
The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in text, include the act
of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the
Reclamation Act, and Acts amendatory
