with titles and at prices satisfactory to him, as he shall have in connection with projects under chapters 195 to 203 of this title. § 1881. Disposition of receipts from project operations All payments made to the United States under repayment contracts on account of reimbursable construction costs, including penalties collected for delinquencies in such payments, and all other receipts from project operations pursuant to sections 1877 and 1882 of this title shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Charges collected for the operation and maintenance of a project under paragraph (b) (2) of section 1877 of this title, and charges collected during the development period of a project under paragraph (b) (1) of section 1877 of this title, excepting such amounts thereof as may be credited to reimbursable construction costs, shall be available for expenditure for operation and maintenance of said project in like manner as if said funds had been specifically appropriated for said purposes. § 1882. Water supplies and power In connection with any project undertaken pursuant to this chapter, provisions, including contracts of sale, may be made for furnishing municipal or miscellaneous water supplies, or for developing and furnishing power in addition to the power requirements of irrigation. No contract relating to a water supply for municipal or miscellaneous purposes or to electric power shall be made unless, in the judgment of the Secretary, it will not impair the efficiency of the project for irrigation purposes. On any project where such provisions are made, the Secretary shall allocate to municipal or miscellaneous water purposes or to surplus power the part of the estimated construction costs of the project which he deems properly so allocable; and such allocations shall not be included in the reimbursable construction costs covered by the repayment contract or contracts required under section 1877 of this title. All right, title, and interest in the facilities provided for such municipal or miscellaneous water supplies or surplus power and the revenues derived therefrom shall remain in the United States. Contracts for such municipal or miscellaneous water supplies or for such surplus power shall be at such rates as, in the Secretary's judg ment, will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover the appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost of the project and such fixed charges, including interest, as the Secretary deems proper. Contracts for the sale of surplus power shall be for periods not to exceed forty years and contracts for water supply for municipal or miscellaneous purposes shall be for such periods as the Secretary may determine and may include such renewal options as the Secretary deems desirable. In sales or leases of such power, preference shall be given to municipalities and other public corporations or agencies; and also to cooperatives and other nonprofit organizations financed in whole or in part by loans made pursuant to any law of the United States authorizing loans for rural electrification. § 1883. Appropriations To carry out the purposes of this chapter there may be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and subject to the limitations of section 1884 of this title (1) for the Department of the Interior such sums as may be necessary to carry out its functions under this chapter and (2) for the Department of Agriculture such sums as may be necessary to carry out its functions under this chapter. § 1884. Limitations on expenditures Except as provided in subsection (c) of section 1877 of this title, expenditures for dams and reservoirs in any one project from appropriations made directly pursuant to section 1883 of this title shall not exceed $2,000,000 for reimbursable construction costs; nor shall such expenditures exceed $500,000 for costs allocated to flood control for any one project; nor shall such expenditures exceed $500,000 for costs allocated to municipal or miscellaneous water supplies or surplus power for any one project. CHAPTER 115-UNDERGROUND WATER RECLAMATION GRANTS IN NEVADA Sec. 1901. Rules and regulations prescribed by Secretary. 1902. Permit to explore for underground water; land included in permit. 1903. Designation by Secretary of lands subject to disposal; application covering lands not designated by Secretary. 1904. Application for permit; accompanying affidavit; filing fee. 1905. Conditions of permit; cancellation. 1906. Extension of time for development of water supply. 1907. Patent to land on development of water supply. 1908. Disposition of land not included in patents; homestead entries. 1909. Proceeds of land as part of reclamation fund. 1910. Reservation of coal and mineral right; disposition of such reserved right. § 1901. Rules and regulations prescribed by Secretary The Secretary of the Interior may prescribe the necessary and proper rules and regulations and may do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this chapter. § 1902. Permit to explore for underground water; land included in permit The Secretary of the Interior may grant to any citizen of the United States, or to any association of such citizens, a permit, which shall give the exclusive right, for a period not exceeding two years, to drill or otherwise explore for water beneath the surface of not exceeding two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of unreserved, unappropriated, non-mineral, non-timbered public lands of the United States in the State of Nevada not known to be susceptible of successful irrigation at reasonable cost from any known source of water supply. Not more than one such permit shall be issued to the same citizen or the same association of citizens within an area of forty miles square. Said land shall not be fenced or otherwise exclusively used by the permittee except as provided in this chapter. § 1903. Designation by Secretary of lands subject to disposal; application covering lands not designated by Secretary The Secretary of the Interior may, on application or otherwise, designate the lands subject to disposal under the provisions of this chapter. Where any person or association qualified to receive a permit under the provisions of this chapter shall make application for such permit upon land which has not been designated under this section as subject to disposal under the provisions of this chapter (provided said application is accompanied and supported by properly corroborated affidavit of the applicant, in duplicate, showing prima facie that the land applied for is of the character contemplated by this chapter), such application, together with the regular fees and commissions, shall be received by the manager of the district land office in which said land is located and suspended until it shall have been determined by the Secretary of the Interior whether said land is actually of that character. During such suspension the land described in the application shall not be disposed of. If the land shall be designated under this section, then such application shall be allowed, otherwise it shall be rejected, subject to appeal. § 1904. Application for permit; accompanying affidavit; filing fee Any qualified applicant for a permit under section 1902 of this title shall file with the manager of the district land office in which said land is located the application for such permit; shall make and subscribe before the proper officer and file with said manager an affidavit that such application is honestly and in good faith made for the purpose of reclamation and cultivation and not for the benefit of any other person or corporation, and that the applicant is not acting as agent for any person, corporation, or syndicate in making such application, nor in collusion with any person, corporation, or syndicate to give them the benefit of the land applied for or any part thereof, and that the applicant will faithfully and honestly endeavor to comply with all of the requirements of this chapter, and shall pay to said manager a filing fee of 1 cent per acre for each acre of land embraced in said application. Such applicant shall then be entitled to receive such permit after the lands embraced therein are designated as provided in the preceding section. § 1905. Conditions of permit; cancellation Every permit granted under this chapter shall be upon condition that the permittee shall begin operations for the development of underground waters within six months from the date of the permit and continue such operations with reasonable diligence until water has been discovered in the quantity hereinafter in this chapter described, or until the date of the expiration of the permit, as extended. Upon the presentation at any time of proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior that any permittee is not conducting such operations in good faith and with reasonable diligence, or has violated any of the terms of the permit or obtained the permit by fraud, the Secretary shall forthwith cancel such permit, and such permittee shall not again be granted a permit under this chapter. § 1906. Extension of time for development of water supply The Secretary of the Interior may, if he shall find that any permittee under this chapter has been unable, with the exercise of diligence, to begin or continue operations for the development of underground waters within the time prescribed by section 1905 of this title, extend the time for the beginning, re-commencement, or completion of the said operations described in said sections for such time, not exceeding two years, and upon such conditions, as he shall prescribe. § 1907. Patent to land on development of water supply On establishing at any time before expiration of the permit and any extensions thereof to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that underground waters in sufficient quantity to produce at a profit agricultural crops other than native grasses upon not less than twenty acres of land has been discovered and developed and rendered available for such use within the limits of the land embraced in any permit under this chapter, the said permittee shall be entitled to a patent for one-fourth of the land embraced in the permit, such area to be selected by the permittee in compact form according to the legal subdivisions of the public land surveys if the land has been surveyed, or to be surveyed at his expense under rules and regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior if located on unsurveyed land. § 1908. Disposition of land not included in patents; homestead entries After the issuance of any patent pursuant to section 1907 of this title, the remaining area within the limits of the land embraced in the permit shall be subject to entry and disposal only under the homestead laws. § 1909. Proceeds of land as part of reclamation fund The receipts obtained from the sale of lands made subject to disposal under the homestead laws by section 1908 of this title shall be paid into, reserved, and appropriated as a part of the reclamation fund continued by chapter 195 of this title. § 1910. Reservation of coal and mineral right; disposition of such reserved right All entries made and patents issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to and contain a reservation to the United States of all the coal and other valuable minerals in the lands so entered and patented, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. The coal and other valuable mineral deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of the coal and mineral land laws in force at the time of such disposal. Any person qualified to locate and enter the coal or other mineral deposits, or having the right to mine and remove the same under the laws of the United States, shall have the right at all times to enter upon the lands entered or patented, as provided by this chapter, for the purpose of prospecting for coal or other mineral therein, provided he shall not injure, damage, or destroy the permanent improvements of the entryman or patentee, and shall be liable to and shall compensate the entryman or patentee for all damages to the crops on such lands by reason of such prospecting. Any person who has acquired from the United States the coal or other mineral deposits in any such land, or the right to mine or remove the same, may re-enter and occupy so much of the surface thereof as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining or removal of the coal or other minerals, first, upon securing the written consent or waiver of the homestead entryman or patentee; second, upon payment |