---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2225"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2225"
heading: "Reclamation Drought Response Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2225"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief"
  - "Subchapter II — Drought Contingency Planning"
---

# §2225. Reclamation Drought Response Fund


The [Secretary](/usc/43/2201.md?p=1) shall undertake a study of the need, if any, to establish a Reclamation Drought Response Fund to be available for defraying those expenses which the [Secretary](/usc/43/2201.md?p=1) determines necessary to implement plans prepared under [section 2222 of this title](/usc/43/2222.md) and to make loans for nonstructural and minor structural activities for the prevention or mitigation of the adverse effects of drought.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–250, title II, § 205, Mar. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 58.)