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[CITE: 25USC385]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                CHAPTER 11--IRRIGATION OF ALLOTTED LANDS
 
Sec. 385. Maintenance charges; reimbursement of construction 
        costs; apportionment of cost
        
    For lands irrigable under any irrigation system or reclamation 
project the Secretary of the Interior may fix maintenance charges which 
shall be paid as he may direct, such payments to be available for use in 
maintaining the project or system for which collected: Provided further, 
That all moneys expended under this provision shall be reimbursable 
where the Indians have adequate funds to repay the Government, such 
reimbursements to be made under such rules and regulations as the 
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to apportion the 
cost of any irrigation project constructed for Indians and made 
reimbursable out of tribal funds of said Indians in accordance with the 
benefits received by each individual Indian so far as practicable from 
said irrigation project, said cost to be apportioned against such 
individual Indian under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the 
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

(Apr. 4, 1910, ch. 140, Secs. 1, 3, 36 Stat. 270, 272; Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 
222, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 583; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, Sec. 1(8), 60 Stat. 
867; Pub. L. 97-293, title II, Sec. 224(f), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 
1273.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on sections 1 and 3 of act Apr. 4, 1910, and 
section 1 of act Aug. 1, 1914.
    A provision in act Aug. 1, 1914, appropriated a specific sum for the 
construction, repair, etc., of ditches, reservoirs, etc., and for the 
pay of designated officials and employees.


                               Amendments

    1982--Pub. L. 98-293 struck out provisions requiring Secretary of 
the Interior to transmit annual cost accounts to Congress of all moneys 
expended on each irrigation project.
    1946--Act Aug. 7, 1946, discontinued provisions requiring Secretary 
of the Interior to transmit annual cost accounts to Congress of all 
moneys expended on each irrigation project.
