---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 485h–3"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "485h–3"
heading: "“Long-term contract” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/485h-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter X — Payment of Construction Charges"
---

# §485h–3. “Long-term contract” defined


As used in sections [485h–1](/usc/43/485h–1.md) to [485h–5](/usc/43/485h–5.md) of this title, the term “long-term contract” shall mean any contract the term of which is more than ten years.


## Source credit

(July 2, 1956, ch. 492, § 3, 70 Stat. 484.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 which comprises this subchapter.