16 U.S.C. § 695e : US Code - Section 695E: Construction, operation, and maintenance of water supply development works

Search 16 U.S.C. § 695e : US Code - Section 695E: Construction, operation, and maintenance of water supply development works

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct,
operate, and maintain such works on waterfowl management areas and
refuges owned and operated by the State of California or the United
States as may be necessary or desirable for the development of a
water supply by means of wells and the recovery of drainage, and to
furnish water available from such works, and water available from
Central Valley project sources, for wildlife management purposes
substantially in accordance with the recommendations set forth in
the report of the United States Department of the Interior entitled
"Waterfowl Conservation in the Lower San Joaquin Valley, Its
Relation to the Grasslands and the Central Valley Project," dated
October 1950, and such works should be developed in cooperation
with the State of California.