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[CITE: 43USC593a]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
SUBCHAPTER XVII--LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 593a. Construction, operation, and maintenance of Hungry 
        Horse Dam
        
    For the purpose of irrigation and reclamation of arid lands, for 
controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the 
South Fork of the Flathead River, for the generation of electric energy, 
and for other beneficial uses primarily in the State of Montana but also 
in downstream areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and 
directed to proceed as soon as practicable with the construction, 
operation, and maintenance of the proposed Hungry Horse Dam (including 
facilities for generating electric energy) on the South Fork of the 
Flathead River, Flathead County, Montana, to such a height as may be 
necessary to impound not less than one million acre-feet of water. The 
Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws 
(Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or 
supplementary thereto).
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to complete, as soon as 
the necessary additional material is available, the construction of the 
Hungry Horse Dam so as to provide a storage reservoir of the maximum 
usable and feasible capacity.

(June 5, 1944, ch. 234, Secs. 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270; Pub. L. 85-428, May 
29, 1958, 72 Stat. 147.)

                       References in Text

    Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is popularly known as the 
Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1958--Pub. L. 85-428 provided that the Hungry Horse project shall be 
subject to the Federal reclamation laws.


                     Authorization of Appropriations

    Section 4 of act June 5, 1944, authorized appropriation of such sums 
as might be necessary to carry out the purpose of this section and 
section 593b of this title.


                            Cross References

    Geographical preference of power users in the State of Montana under 
this section and section 593b of this title not modified by Pacific 
Northwest hydroelectric provisions, see section 837h of Title 16, 
Conservation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 16 section 837h.
