---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 390h–11"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "390h–11"
heading: "Los Angeles area water reclamation and reuse project"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/390h-11"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §390h–11. Los Angeles area water reclamation and reuse project

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) is authorized to participate with the city and county of Los Angeles, [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) of California, West Basin Municipal Water District, and other appropriate authorities, in the design, planning, and construction of water reclamation and reuse projects to treat approximately one hundred and twenty thousand acre-feet per year of effluent from the city and county of Los Angeles, in order to provide new water supplies for industrial, environmental, and other beneficial purposes, to reduce the demand for imported water, and to reduce sewage effluent discharged into Santa Monica Bay.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7)’s share of costs associated with the project described in [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 operation or maintenance of the project.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–575, title XVI, § 1613, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4667.)