---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1575"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1575"
heading: "Contract authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1575"
units:
  - "Chapter 32A — Colorado River Basin Salinity Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs Downstream from Imperial Dam"
---

# §1575. Contract authority


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) is authorized to enter into contracts that he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter in advance of the appropriation of funds therefor.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–320, title I, § 105, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 270.)