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[CITE: 43USC485]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
              SUBCHAPTER X--PAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
 
Sec. 485. Declaration of policy

    For the purpose of providing for United States reclamation projects 
a feasible and comprehensive plan for an economical and equitable 
treatment of repayment problems and for variable payments of 
construction charges which can be met regularly and fully from year to 
year during periods of decline in agricultural income and unsatisfactory 
conditions of agriculture as well as during periods of prosperity and 
good prices for agricultural products, and which will protect adequately 
the financial interest of the United States in said projects, 
obligations to pay construction charges may be revised or undertaken 
pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.

(Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1187.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this 
Act'', meaning act Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, 53 Stat. 1187, as amended, 
known as the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, which enacted this 
subchapter, sections 375a, 380a, and 387 to 389 of this title and 
section 16d of Title 41, Public Contracts, and enacted provision set out 
as a note under section 485j of this title. For complete classification 
of this Act to the Code, see section 485k of this title and Tables.
