---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1457b"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1457b"
heading: "Use of cooperative agreements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1457b"
units:
  - "Chapter 31 — Department of the Interior"
---

# §1457b. Use of cooperative agreements


For fiscal year 2010, and each fiscal year thereafter, the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior may enter into cooperative agreements with a [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) or political subdivision (including any agency thereof), or any not-for-profit organization if the agreement will: (1) serve a mutual interest of the parties to the agreement in carrying out the programs administered by the Department of the Interior; and (2) all parties will contribute resources to the accomplishment of these objectives. At the discretion of the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7), such agreements shall not be subject to a competitive process.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–88, div. A, title I, § 112, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2928.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.