---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10369"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10369"
heading: "Research agreement authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10369"
units:
  - "Chapter 109B — Secure Water"
---

# §10369. Research agreement authority


The [Secretary](/usc/42/10362.md?p=18-A) may enter into contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, for periods not to exceed 5 years, to carry out research within the Bureau of Reclamation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title IX, § 9509, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1346.)