---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 390oo"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "390oo"
heading: "Temporary supplies of water"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/390oo"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter I–A — Reclamation Reform"
---

# §390oo. Temporary supplies of water

- (a) **Limitations inapplicable—** Neither the ownership limitations of this subchapter nor the ownership limitations of any other provision of Federal reclamation law shall apply to lands which receive only a temporary, not to exceed one year, supply of water made possible as a result of—
  - (1) an unusually large water supply not otherwise storable for [project](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=8) purposes; or
  - (2) infrequent and otherwise unmanaged flood flows of short duration.
- (b) **Waiver of payment for temporary water supplies—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=11) shall have the authority to waive payments for a supply of water described in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 215, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1270.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Federal reclamation law, referred to in subsec. (a), is defined in section 390aa of this title.