---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 390h–12m"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "390h–12m"
heading: "Mission Basin Brackish Groundwater Desalting Demonstration Project"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/390h-12m"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §390h–12m. Mission Basin Brackish Groundwater Desalting Demonstration Project

- (a) **Authorization—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7), in cooperation with the City of Oceanside, is authorized to participate in the design, planning, and construction of a 3,000,000 gallon per day expansion of the Mission Basin Brackish Groundwater Desalting Demonstration Project in Oceanside, California.
- (b) **Cost share—** The Federal share of the cost of a project described in [subsection (a)](#a) shall not exceed 25 percent of the total cost.
- (c) **Limitation—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) shall not provide funds for the operation or maintenance of a project described in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–575, title XVI, § 1627, as added Pub. L. 104–266, § 2(a)(2), Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3293.)