---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1542"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1542"
heading: "Repayment capability of Indian lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1542"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Colorado River Basin Project"
  - "Subchapter IV — Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund"
---

# §1542. Repayment capability of Indian lands


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) shall determine the repayment capability of Indian lands within, under, or served by any unit of the project. Construction costs allocated to irrigation of Indian lands (including provision of water for incidental domestic and stock water uses) and within the repayment capability of such lands shall be subject to [section 386a of title 25](/usc/25/386a.md), and such costs that are beyond repayment capability of such lands shall be nonreimbursable.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–537, title IV, § 402, Sept. 30, 1968, 82 Stat. 894.)