---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 390h–10"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "390h–10"
heading: "San Diego area water reclamation program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/390h-10"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §390h–10. San Diego area water reclamation program

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7), in cooperation with the city of San Diego, California[^1] or its successor agency in the management of the San Diego Area Wastewater Management District, shall participate in the planning, design and construction of demonstration and permanent facilities to reclaim and reuse water in the San Diego metropolitan service area.
- (b) The Federal share of the costs of the facilities authorized by [subsection (a)](#a) shall not exceed 25 per centum of the total. The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) shall not provide funds for the operation or maintenance of the project.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be followed by a comma.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–575, title XVI, § 1612, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4667.)