43 USC § 593a - Construction, operation, and maintenance of Hungry Horse Dam

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title: "43 USC § 593a - Construction, operation, and maintenance of Hungry Horse Dam"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "593a"
section_name: "Construction, operation, and maintenance of Hungry Horse Dam"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "XVII"
subchapter_name: "LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO PARTICULAR PROJECTS GENERALLY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 5, 1944, ch. 234, §§ 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270; Pub. L. 85–428, May 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 147.)"
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# § 593a. Construction, operation, and maintenance of Hungry Horse Dam

June 17, 190232 Stat. 388

For the purpose of irrigation and reclamation of arid lands, for controlling floods, improving navigation, regulating the flow of the South Fork of the Flathead River, for the generation of electric energy, and for other beneficial uses primarily in the State of Montana but also in downstream areas, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to proceed as soon as practicable with the construction, operation, and maintenance of the proposed Hungry Horse Dam (including facilities for generating electric energy) on the South Fork of the Flathead River, Flathead County, Montana, to such a height as may be necessary to impound not less than one million acre-feet of water. The Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of  (), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto).

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to complete, as soon as the necessary additional material is available, the construction of the Hungry Horse Dam so as to provide a storage reservoir of the maximum usable and feasible capacity.

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**Source Credit**: (June 5, 1944, ch. 234, §§ 1, 2, 58 Stat. 270; Pub. L. 85–428, May 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 147.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of , referred to in text, is popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

### Amendments

1958— provided that the Hungry Horse project shall be subject to the Federal reclamation laws.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Authorization of Appropriations

, , authorized appropriation of such sums as might be necessary to carry out the purpose of this section and .