---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 391a–1"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "391a–1"
heading: "Increase in reclamation fund; reimbursement of advances from Treasury"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/391a-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter II — Reclamation Fund Generally"
---

# §391a–1. Increase in reclamation fund; reimbursement of advances from Treasury


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer to the credit of the reclamation fund, created by [section 391 of this title](/usc/43/391.md), a sum equal to the difference between (1) 52½ per centum of the moneys which the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Treasury shall determine to have accrued to the United States from lands within the naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska, from February 25, 1920, to June 30, 1938, inclusive, and (2) the total of all sums advanced to the reclamation fund under the provisions of sections [397](/usc/43/397.md) and [398](/usc/43/398.md) to [400](/usc/43/400.md) of this title, and under the provisions of sections [391a](/usc/43/391a.md) and [391b](/usc/43/391b.md) of this title, and not reimbursed by transfer from the reclamation fund to the general funds in the Treasury. The transaction provided for in this section shall be deemed to have effected a complete reimbursement to the general funds in the Treasury of all sums advanced to the reclamation fund under the provisions of such sections [391a](/usc/43/391a.md), [391b](/usc/43/391b.md), [397](/usc/43/397.md), and [398](/usc/43/398.md) to [400](/usc/43/400.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(May 9, 1938, ch. 187, 52 Stat. 322.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 391b and 399 of this title, referred to in text, contained provisions similar to those comprising this section, and were omitted from the Code.