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title: "43 U.S.C. § 461"
description: "Determination of construction charges generally"
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title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
chapter_number: "12"
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
section: "461"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 461"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 43 U.S.C. § 461 - Determination of construction charges generally

## Text

The construction charges which shall be made per acre upon the entries and upon lands in private ownership which may be irrigated by the waters of any irrigation project shall be determined with a view of returning to the reclamation fund the estimated cost of construction of the project, and shall be apportioned equitably.

(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 4, 32 Stat. 389.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section is comprised of part of section 4 of act June 17, 1902. Remainder of such section 4 is classified to section 419 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands ActProvisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.