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

# §833c. Preference to public bodies and cooperatives


In order to insure that the facilities for the generation of electric energy at the Fort Peck [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) shall be operated for the benefit of the general public, and particularly of domestic and rural consumers, the Bureau shall at all times, in disposing of electric energy generated at said [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), give preference and priority to public bodies and cooperatives.


## Source credit

(May 18, 1938, ch. 250, § 4, 52 Stat. 405.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.