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Title 43—PUBLIC LANDS > CHAPTER 12—RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT > SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS

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Under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the reclamation of arid lands, under the Act of June 17, 1902 , and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, shall be administered by a Commissioner of Reclamation who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

( May 26, 1926, ch. 401 , 44 Stat. 657 ; Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 229 , Oct. 12, 1982 , 96 Stat. 1274 .)

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