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

# §390uu. Waiver of sovereign immunity


Consent is given to join the United States as a necessary party defendant in any suit to adjudicate, confirm, validate, or decree the contractual rights of a contracting entity and the United States regarding any [contract](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=1) executed pursuant to Federal reclamation law. The United States, when a party to any suit, shall be deemed to have waived any right to plead that it is not amenable thereto by reason of its sovereignty, and shall be subject to judgments, orders, and decrees of the court having jurisdiction, and may obtain review thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as a private [individual](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=4) under like circumstances. Any suit pursuant to this section may be brought in any United States [district](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=2) court in the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) in which the land involved is situated.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 221, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1271.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Federal reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 390aa of this title.