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[CITE: 43USC485d]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
              SUBCHAPTER X--PAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
 
Sec. 485d. Time of payments to the United States

    The Secretary in this discretion may require, in connection with any 
contract entered into pursuant to the authority of this subchapter, that 
the contract provide (1) that the payments for each year to be made to 
the United States shall become due and payable on such date or dates, 
not exceeding two, in each year as the Secretary determines will be 
substantially contemporaneous with the time or times in each year when 
water users receive crop returns and (2) if the contract be with an 
organization, that assessments or levies for the purpose of obtaining 
moneys sufficient to meet the organization's payments under said 
contract shall be made and shall become due and payable within a certain 
period or periods of time prior to the date or dates on which the 
organization's payments to the United States are due and payable, said 
period or periods of time to be agreed upon in each said contract.
    The Secretary may provide such deferments of construction charges as 
in his judgment are necessary to prevent said requirements from 
resulting in inequitable pyramiding of payments of said charges.

(Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, Sec. 5, 53 Stat. 1191.)


  Extension of Secretary's Authority To Enter Into Amendatory Contracts

    Secretary's authority extended through Dec. 31, 1960, see section 
485b-1 of this title.
