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[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.
