---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1574"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1574"
heading: "Modification of projects"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1574"
units:
  - "Chapter 32A — Colorado River Basin Salinity Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs Downstream from Imperial Dam"
---

# §1574. Modification of projects


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) is authorized to provide for modifications of the projects authorized by this subchapter to the extent he determines appropriate for purposes of meeting the international settlement objective of this subchapter at the lowest overall cost to the United States. No funds for any such modification shall be expended until the expiration of sixty days after the proposed modification has been submitted to the appropriate committees of the Congress, unless the Congress approves an earlier date by concurrent resolution. The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) shall notify the Governors of the Colorado River Basin [States](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) of such modifications.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–320, title I, § 104, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 270.)