16 U.S.C. § 835
Section 835 · Project authorized; laws applicable
This is the The Columbia Basin Project Act
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case East Columbia Basin Irrigation District v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1991)
Most recently applied in 688 F. Supp. 2d 1225 - Wild Fish Conservancy v. Salazar (February 2010)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In addition to the primary purposes for which the Grand Coulee Dam project (hereafter to be known as the Columbia Basin project and herein called the “project”) was authorized under the provisions of the Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1028), the project is authorized and reauthorized as a project subject to the Reclamation Project Act of 1939; and the provisions of each of those two Acts together with the provisions of sections 835 and 835a to 835c–5 of this title shall govern the repayment of expenditures and the construction, operation, and maintenance of the works constructed as a part of the project.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
References in Text
Act of August 30, 1935 (49 Stat. 1028), referred to in text, is act Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, 49 Stat. 1028, as amended, which act, by section 2, authorized the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
The Reclamation Project Act of 1939, referred to in text, is act Aug. 4, 1939, ch. 418, 53 Stat. 1187, as amended, which is classified generally to sections 375a, 387 to 389, 485 to 485h, and 485i to 485k of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 485k of Title 43 and Tables.
Those two Acts, referred to in text, refer to the act of Aug. 30, 1935, and to the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. See notes above.
Sections 835a, 835b, 835c–3 and 835c–5 of this title, included within the reference to sections 835a to 835c–5 of this title, were repealed by Pub. L. 87–728, §3, Oct. 1, 1962, 76 Stat. 678.
Amendments
1943—Act Mar. 10, 1943, amended section generally.
Short Title of 1943 Amendment
Section 11 of act Mar. 10, 1943, provided that: “This Act [amending this section and sections 835a, 835b, and 835c of this title and enacting sections 835c–1 to 835c–5 of this title] may be cited as ‘The Columbia Basin Project Act’.”
Separability
Section 10 of act Mar. 10, 1943, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [see Short Title of 1943 Amendment note above] or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act [such sections] and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.”
Transfer of Functions
Power marketing functions of Bureau of Reclamation, including construction, operation, and maintenance of transmission lines and attendant facilities, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(a)(1)(E), (3) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and are to be exercised by Secretary through a separate Administration within Department of Energy.