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[CITE: 43USC388]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 388. Contracts for materials; liability of United States

    When appropriations have been made for the commencement or 
continuation of construction or operation and maintenance of any 
project, the Secretary may, in connection with such construction or 
operation and maintenance, enter into contracts for miscellaneous 
services, for materials and supplies, as well as for construction, which 
may cover such periods of time as the Secretary may consider necessary 
but in which the liability of the United States shall be contingent upon 
appropriations being made therefor.

(Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, Sec. 12, 53 Stat. 1197.)


                               Definitions

    The definitions in section 485a of this title apply to this section.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 485, 485d, 485e, 485f, 485g, 
485i, 485j, 485k of this title.
