---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 833b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "833b"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/833b"
units:
  - "Chapter 12C — Fort Peck Project"
---

# §833b. 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

(May 18, 1938, ch. 250, § 3, 52 Stat. 405.)