---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 600"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "600"
heading: "Minidoka project, Idaho; sales of water from American Falls Reservoir"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/600"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Legislation Applicable to Particular Projects Generally"
---

# §600. Minidoka project, Idaho; sales of water from American Falls Reservoir


No contractor shall secure a right to the use of water from American Falls Reservoir, Minidoka [project](/usc/43/485a.md?p=c), except under a contract containing the provision that the contractor shall, as a part of the construction cost, pay interest at the rate of six per centum per annum upon the contractor’s proper proportionate share, as found by the [Secretary](/usc/43/485a.md?p=b) of the Interior, of the moneys advanced by the United States on account of the construction of said reservoir prior to the date of the contract.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1924, ch. 264, 43 Stat. 417.)