---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2406"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2406"
heading: "Miscellaneous"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2406"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Rural Water Supply"
  - "Subchapter I — Reclamation Rural Water Supply"
---

# §2406. Miscellaneous

- (a) **Authority of Secretary—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/2401.md?p=10) may enter into contracts, financial assistance agreements, and such other agreements, and promulgate such regulations, as are necessary to carry out this subchapter.
- (b) **Transfer of projects—** Nothing in this subchapter authorizes the transfer of pre-existing facilities or pre-existing components of any water system from Federal to private ownership or from private to Federal ownership.
- (c) **Federal reclamation law—** Nothing in this subchapter supersedes or amends any Federal law associated with a project, or portion of a project, constructed under [Federal reclamation law](/usc/43/2401.md?p=2).
- (d) **Interagency coordination—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/2401.md?p=10) shall coordinate the [Program](/usc/43/2401.md?p=7) carried out under this subchapter with existing Federal and [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) rural water and wastewater [programs](/usc/43/2401.md?p=7) to facilitate the most efficient and effective solution to meeting the water needs of the non-Federal project sponsors.
- (e) **Multiple Indian tribes—** In any case in which a contract is entered into with, or a grant is made, to[^1] an organization to perform services benefitting more than 1 [Indian tribe](/usc/43/2401.md?p=4) under this subchapter, the approval of each such [Indian tribe](/usc/43/2401.md?p=4) shall be a prerequisite to entering into the contract or making the grant.
- (f) **Ownership of facilities—** Title to any facility planned, designed, and recommended for [construction](/usc/43/2401.md?p=1) under this subchapter shall be held by the [non-Federal project entity](/usc/43/2401.md?p=5).
- (g) **Expedited procedures—** If the [Secretary](/usc/43/2401.md?p=10) determines that a community to be served by a proposed [rural water supply project](/usc/43/2401.md?p=9-A) has urgent and compelling water needs, the [Secretary](/usc/43/2401.md?p=10) shall, to the maximum extent practicable, expedite appraisal investigations and reports conducted under [section 2404 of this title](/usc/43/2404.md) and feasibility studies and reports conducted under [section 2405 of this title](/usc/43/2405.md).
- (h) **Effect on State water law—**
  - (1) **In general—** Nothing in this subchapter preempts or affects [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) water law or an interstate compact governing water.
  - (2) **Compliance required—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/2401.md?p=10) shall comply with [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) water laws in carrying out this subchapter.
- (i) **No additional requirements—** Nothing in this subchapter requires a feasibility study for, or imposes any other additional requirements with respect to, [rural water supply projects](/usc/43/2401.md?p=9-A) or [programs](/usc/43/2401.md?p=7) that are authorized before December 22, 2006.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The comma probably should follow “to”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–451, title I, § 107, Dec. 22, 2006, 120 Stat. 3355.)