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[CITE: 43USC423b]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
            SUBCHAPTER V--ADMINISTRATION OF EXISTING PROJECTS
 
Sec. 423b. Suspension of payment of construction charges against 
        areas temporarily unproductive
        
    The payment of all construction charges against said areas 
temporarily unproductive shall remain suspended until the Secretary of 
the Interior shall declare them to be possessed of sufficient productive 
power properly to be placed in a paying class, whereupon payment of 
construction charges against such areas shall be resumed or shall begin, 
as the case may be. Any payments made on such areas shall be credited to 
the unpaid balance of the construction charge on the productive area of 
each unit. Such credit shall be applied on and after April 23, 1930, 
which shall not be construed to require revision of accounts adjusted 
before April 23, 1930, under the provisions of this section as 
originally enacted. While said lands so classified as temporarily 
unproductive and the construction charges against them are suspended, 
water for irrigation purposes may be furnished upon payment of the usual 
operation and maintenance charges, or such other charges as may be fixed 
by the Secretary of the Interior the advance payment of which may be 
required, in the discretion of the said Secretary. Should said lands 
temporarily classed as unproductive, or any of them, in the future be 
found by the Secretary of the Interior to be permanently unproductive, 
the charges against them shall be charged off as a permanent loss to the 
reclamation fund and they shall thereupon be treated in the same manner 
as other permanently unproductive lands as provided in sections 423 to 
423g and 610 of this title except that no refund shall be made of the 
construction charges paid on such unproductive areas and applied as a 
credit on productive areas as herein authorized.

(May 25, 1926, ch. 383, Sec. 43, 44 Stat. 647; Apr. 23, 1930, ch. 205, 
46 Stat. 249.)

                       References in Text

    Section 610 of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the 
Code.


                               Amendments

    1930--Act Apr. 23, 1930, provided that the credit shall be applied 
on or after April 23, 1930, and was not to be construed as requiring 
revision of accounts adjusted before such date, and that no refund shall 
be made of the charges on unproductive areas and applied as a credit on 
productive areas.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 423d, 423f, 424, 424b, 424d 
of this title.
