---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1962d–5c"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1962d–5c"
heading: "Non-Federal public bodies, installment construction payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1962d-5c"
units:
  - "Chapter 19B — Water Resources Planning"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §1962d–5c. Non-Federal public bodies, installment construction payments

- (a) **Annual installments during period of construction in absence of other provision for extended repayment—** In connection with any water resource development [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2), heretofore, herein, or hereafter authorized to be undertaken by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Army, the [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) of which has not been initiated as of March 7, 1974, where authorization requires that non-Federal public bodies make an agreed-upon cash contribution as part of their reimbursement to the Federal Government for [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) costs, or a specific portion of the [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) costs, and where there exists no other provision of law which would permit extended repayment for the [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) costs or such specific portion of the [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) costs involved, such non-Federal public bodies may make such repayment in annual installments during the period of [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7).
- (b) **Cost sharing; modification—** Upon the request of affected non-Federal public bodies, the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of the Army is authorized to modify existing cost sharing agreements in order to effectuate the provisions of [subsection (a)](#a) of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–251, title I, § 40, Mar. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 23.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1974, and not as part of the Water Resources Planning Act which comprises this chapter.