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[CITE: 43USC492]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
       SUBCHAPTER XI--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 492. Operation and maintenance charges generally

    In addition to the construction charge, every water-right applicant, 
entryman, or landowner under or upon a reclamation project shall also 
pay, whenever water service is available for the irrigation of his land, 
an operation and maintenance charge based upon the total cost of 
operation and maintenance of the project, or each separate unit thereof, 
and such charge shall be made for each acre-foot of water delivered; but 
each acre of irrigable land, whether irrigated or not, shall be charged 
with a minimum operation and maintenance charge based upon the charge 
for delivery of not less than one acre-foot of water. If the total 
amount of operation and maintenance charges and penalties collected for 
any one irrigation season on any project shall exceed the cost of 
operation and maintenance of the project during that irrigation season, 
the balance shall be applied to a reduction of the charge on the project 
for the next irrigation season, and any deficit incurred may likewise be 
added to the charge for the next irrigation season.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 5, 38 Stat. 687.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of part of first sentence and second sentence 
of section 5 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of first sentence of such 
section is classified to section 499 of this title.


                            Cross References

    Secretary of the Interior authorized to contract with irrigation 
district for such penalties or interest charges in case of delinquency 
in payments as he may deem proper notwithstanding this section, see 
section 511 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 465, 475, 511, 591a of this 
title.
