---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 412"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "412"
heading: "Prerequisites to initiation of project or division of project"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/412"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter III — Institution and Construction of Projects"
---

# §412. Prerequisites to initiation of project or division of project


After December 5, 1924, no new project or new division of a project shall be approved for construction or estimates submitted therefor by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) until information in detail shall be secured by him concerning the water supply, the engineering features, the cost of construction, land prices, and the probable cost of development, and he shall have made a finding in writing that it is feasible, that it is adaptable for actual settlement and farm homes, and that it will probably return the cost thereof to the United States.


## Source credit

(Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. B, 43 Stat. 702.)

## Notes

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### Definitions

The definitions in section 371 of this title apply to this section.