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Show 242 tary.B4° No such determination may become effective until 60 days after it has been submitted to the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the House Committee on Public Lands.541 It may, however, become effective sooner upon written approval by both Committees.542 Nonjederal Operation of Projects by Water-Users' Organiza- tions.-A significant feature of the 1902 Act is its provision for transfer of the "management and operation" of irrigation works to the owners of the land to be maintained at their expense when payments required by the Act have been made for the major portion of the project lands.543 But title to and man- agement and operation of the reservoirs and the works nec- essary for their protection and operation remain in the Government.644 In 1914, the Secretary was authorized to transfer to a legally organized water-users' association or irrigation district the "care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe." 545 A 1924 Act requires that, whenever two-thirds of the irrigable area of any project shall be covered by water- right contracts, a water-users' association or irrigation dis- trict shall be required to take over project care, operation, and maintenance, as a condition precedent to receiving certain bene- fits under the Act.546 But provision was made two years later for dispensing with this requirement as to certain p'rojects.547 Related Statutes.-A number of statutes are related to but not a part of Reclamation Law. Several of these we have already mentioned. Others merit more than passing note. 540 Id. An appropriation had previously provided funds for "Rehabilita- tion and Betterment" work. Act of June 29, 1948, 62 Stat. 1112, 1128. 541/<Z. 843 Act of March 3, 1950, 64 Stat. 11. Provision is also made for approval when Congress is not in session. MS Act of June 17,1902, § 6, 32 Stat. 388, 389, 43 U. S. C. 498. 844 Id. MS Act of August 13, 1914, § 5, 38 Stat. 686, 687, 43 U. S. C. 499. 549 Act of December 5,1924, § 4, subsection G, 43 Stat. 672, 702, 43 U. S. C. 500. 84' Act of May 25,1926, § 45, 44 Stat 636, 648, 43 U. S. C. 423d. |