43 U.S.C. § 505 : US Code - Section 505: Drainage facilities and minor construction in irrigation works; contracts with repayment organizations; limitation on costs; submission of contract to Congress

Search 43 U.S.C. § 505 : US Code - Section 505: Drainage facilities and minor construction in irrigation works; contracts with repayment organizations; limitation on costs; submission of contract to Congress

Funds appropriated for the construction of irrigation works
authorized to be undertaken pursuant to the Federal reclamation
laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory
thereof or supplementary thereto), the Act of August 11, 1939 (53
Stat. 1418), as amended [16 U.S.C. 590y et seq.], or other Acts of
Congress may, insofar as such funds are available for the
construction of drainage facilities and other minor items, be
utilized by the Secretary of the Interior to accomplish such work
by contract, by force account or, notwithstanding any other law and
subject only to such reasonable terms and conditions as the
Secretary shall deem appropriate for the protection of the United
States, by contract entered into with the repayment organization
concerned whereby said organization shall perform such work:
Provided, That in the event construction work to be accomplished by
any one repayment organization, pursuant to contract with the
United States, exceeds a total cost of $200,000, such contract
shall not be executed by the Secretary prior to the expiration of
sixty calendar days (which sixty days, however, shall not include
days on which either the House of Representatives or the Senate is
not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to
a day certain) from the date on which it has been submitted to the
Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate for reference
to the appropriate Committees, except that such contract may be
executed prior to expiration of such sixty days in any case in
which both such Committees approve said contract and notify the
Secretary in writing of such approval.