---
type: "LegalText"
title: "43 U.S.C. § 485h–5"
description: "Supplement to Federal reclamation laws"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
chapter_number: "12"
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
section: "485h–5"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 485h–5"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc43@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s485h–5"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-43/usc43.xml"
source_hash: "566f8c54dade391306c50defc568a97d54e13fcffc320218a94e4a91239fbf4c"
raw_snapshot_hash: "d46a16361aa9d10bbc4b27ea0561882d240801c965a2700a4b7cf5f02f552a5f"
text_hash: "c1a2d794fdbf549616a4ff3179ef99c49911ff0474ebcebbb89e37852aa15769"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---

# 43 U.S.C. § 485h–5 - Supplement to Federal reclamation laws

## Text

Sections 485h–1 to 485h–5 of this title shall be a supplement to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto).

(July 2, 1956, ch. 492, § 5, 70 Stat. 484.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextAct 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.

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 which comprises this subchapter.