---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 832b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "832b"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/832b"
units:
  - "Chapter 12B — Bonneville Project"
---

# §832b. Definitions


As employed in this chapter, the term “public body”, or “public bodies”, means [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r), public power districts, [counties](/usc/16/544.md?p=d), and municipalities, including agencies or [subdivisions](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) of any thereof.

As employed in this chapter, the term “cooperative”, or “cooperatives”, means any form of nonprofit-making organization or organizations of citizens supplying, or which may be created to supply, members with any kind of goods, commodities, or services, as nearly as possible at cost.


## Source credit

(Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 720, § 3, 50 Stat. 733.)