43 U.S.C. § 2245
Excess storage and carrying capacity
United States · Title 43 — PUBLIC LANDS · Status: effective
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- 43 U.S.C. § 2245, Excess storage and carrying capacity, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/486565
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The Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts with municipalities, public water districts and agencies, other Federal agencies, State agencies, and private entities, pursuant to the Act of February 21, 1911 (43 U.S.C. 523), for the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, fish and wildlife, industrial, and other beneficial purposes using any facilities associated with the Central Valley Project, Cachuma Project, and the Ventura River Project, California, the Truckee Storage Project, and the Washoe Project, California and Nevada. The Secretary is further authorized to enter into contracts for the exchange of water for the aforementioned purposes using facilities associated with the Cachuma Project, California.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991House: 387–23Senate: no recorded tally