---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 422f"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "422f"
heading: "Proposals for projects previously authorized; waiver of requirements; approval; negotiation of contract"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/422f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter IV — Construction of Small Projects"
---

# §422f. Proposals for projects previously authorized; waiver of requirements; approval; negotiation of contract


Any proposal with respect to the [construction](/usc/43/422b.md?p=a) of a [project](/usc/43/422b.md?p=d) which has theretofore been authorized for [construction](/usc/43/422b.md?p=a) under the [Federal reclamation laws](/usc/43/422b.md?p=b) shall be made in like manner as a proposal under [section 422d of this title](/usc/43/422d.md), but the [Secretary](/usc/43/422b.md?p=e) may waive such requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of [section 422d of this title](/usc/43/422d.md) as he finds to be duplicative of, or rendered unnecessary or impossible by, action already taken by the United States. Upon approval of any such proposal by the [Secretary](/usc/43/422b.md?p=e) he may negotiate and execute a contract which conforms, as nearly as may be, to the provisions of [section 422e of this title](/usc/43/422e.md).


## Source credit

(Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 972, § 6, 70 Stat. 1046.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in text, are defined in section 422b of this title.