the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, there is authorized to be appropriated from the reclamation fund an emergency fund which shall be available for defraying expenses which the Commissioner of Reclamation determines are required to be incurred because of unusual or emergency conditions. (June 26, 1948, ch. 676, § 1, 62 Stat. 1052.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of that Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F. R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 503 of this title. § 503. Same; definition of "unusual or emergency conditions". The term "unusual or emergency conditions", as used in section 502 of this title, shall be construed to mean canal bank failures, generator failures, damage to transmission lines; or other physical failures or damage, or acts of God, or of the public enemy, fires, floods, drought, epidemics, strikes, or freight embargoes, or conditions, causing or threatening to cause interruption in water or power service. (June 26, 1948, ch. 676, § 2, 62 Stat. 1052.) § 504. Rehabilitation and betterment of Federal reclamation projects; return of costs; definitions; performance of work. Expenditures of funds hereafter specifically appropriated for rehabilitation and betterment of irrigation systems on projects governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) shall be made only after the organizations concerned shall have obligated themselves for the return thereof in installments fixed in accordance with their ability to pay, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior in the light of their outstanding repayment obligations, and which shall, to the fullest practicable extent, be scheduled for return with their construction charge installments or otherwise scheduled as he shall determine. No such determination of the Secretary of the Interior shall become effective until the expiration of sixty days after It has been submitted to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives; except that, any such determination may become effective prior to the expiration of such sixty days in any case in which each such committee approves an earlier date and notifies the Secretary, in writing, of such approval: Provided, That when Congress is not in session the Secretary's determination, if accompanied by a finding by the Secretary that substantial hardship to the water users concerned or substantial further injury to the project works will result, shall become effective when the chairman and ranking minority member of each such committee shall file with the Secretary their written approval of said findings. The term "rehabilitation and betterment", as used in this sec tion, shall mean maintenance, including replacements, which cannot be financed currently, as otherwise contemplated by the Federal reclamation laws in the case of operation and maintenance costs, but shall not include construction, the costs of which are returnable, in whole or in part, through “construction charges" as that term is defined in section 485a (d) of this title. Such rehabilitation and betterment work may be performed by contract, by force-account, or, notwithstanding any other law and subject only to such reasonable terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall deem appropriate for the protection of the United States, by contract entered into with the organization concerned whereby such organization shall perform such work. (Oct. 7, 1949, ch. 650, § 1, 63 Stat. 724; Mar. 3, 1950, ch. 47, 64 Stat. 11.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), referred to in the text, are classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. AMENDMENTS 1950-Act Mar. 3, 1950 offered an alternate to the 60-day waiting period in any case where either the Senate Committee on Interior or Insular Affairs or the House Committee on Interior or Insular Affairs approves an earlier date, and to make action possible when Congress is not in session. SUPPLEMENTAL TO FEDERAL RECLAMATION LAWS Section 2 of act Oct. 7, 1949, provided that: "This Act [this section] shall be deemed a supplement to the Federal reclamation laws." § 505. Drainage facilities and minor construction in irrigation works; contracts with repayment organizations; limitation on costs; submission of contract to Congress. Funds appropriated for the construction of irrigation works authorized to be undertaken pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), sections 590y to 590z-4, 590z-6 to 590z-9 of Title 16, Conservation, or other Acts of Congress may, insofar as such funds are available for the construction of drainage facilities and other minor items, be utilized by the Secretary of the Interior to accomplish such work by contract, by force account or, notwithstanding any other law and subject only to such reasonable terms and conditions as the Secretary shall deem appropriate for the protection of the United States, by contract entered into with the repayment organization concerned whereby said organization shall perform such work: Provided, That in the event construction work to be accomplished by any one repayment organization, pursuant to contract with the United States, exceeds a total cost of $200,000, such contract shall not be executed by the Secretary prior to the expiration of sixty calendar days (which sixty days, however, shall not include days on which either the House of Representatives or the Senate is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain) from the date on which it has been submitted to the Speaker of the House and the PresiIdent of the Senate for reference to the appropriate Committees, except that such contract may be executed prior to expiration of such sixty days in any case in which both such Committees approve said contract and notify the Secretary in writing of such approval. (June 13, 1956, ch. 382, 70 Stat. 274.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal reclamation laws (act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), referred to in the text, are classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. CONTRACTS WITH STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS FOR PAYMENT OF CHARGES § 511. Authority to contract with irrigation district. In carrying out the purposes of the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto and known as the reclamation law, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into contract with any legally organized irrigation district whereby such irrigation district shall agree to pay the moneys required to be paid to the United States, and in such event water-right applications on the part of landowners and entrymen, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, may be dispensed with. In the event of such contract being made with an irrigation district, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may contract that the payments, both for the construction of irrigation works and for operation and maintenance, on the part of the district shall be made upon such dates as will best conform to the district and taxation laws of the respective States under which such irrigation districts shall be formed, and if he deem it advisable he may contract for such penalties or interest charges in case of delinquency in payments as he may deem proper and consistent with such State laws, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 471, 472, 475, 478 to 481, 492, 493, 494 to 497 and 499 of this title. The Secretary of the Interior may accept a partial payment of the amount due from any district to the United States, providing such acceptance shall not constitute a waiver of the balance remaining due nor the interest or penalties, if any, accruing upon said balance: Provided, That no contract with an irrigation district under this section and sections 512 and 513 of this title shall be binding on the United States until the proceedings on the part of the district for the authorization of the execution of the contract with the United States shall have been confirmed by decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, or pending appellate action if ground for appeal be laid. (May 15, 1922, ch. 190, § 1, 42 Stat. 541.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and known as and called the reclamation law, referred to in the text, are classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 513 of this title. § 512. Release of Government liens after contract with irrigation districts. Patents and water-right certificates which shall be issued after May 15, 1922, under the terms of sections 541 to 546 of this title, for lands lying within any irrigation district with which the United States shall have contracted, by which the irrigation district agrees to make the payment of all charges for the building of irrigation works and for operation and maintenance, shall not reserve to the United States a lien for the payment of such charges; and where such a lien shall have been reserved in any patent or water-right certificate issued under the said sections, the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to release such lien in such manner and form as may be deemed effective; and the Secretary of the Interior is further empowered to release liens in favor of the United States contained in waterright applications and to assent to the release of liens to secure reimbursement of moneys due to the United States pursuant to water-right applications running in favor of the water users' association and contained in stock subscription contracts to such associations, when the lands covered by such liens shall be subject to assessment and levy for the collection of all moneys due and to become due to the United States by irrigation districts formed pursuant to State law and with which the United States shall have entered into contract therefor: Provided, That no such lien so reserved to the United States in any patent or water-right certificate shall be released until the owner of the land covered by the lien shall consent in writing to the assessment, levy, and collection by such irrigation district of taxes against said land for the payment to the United States of the contract obligation: Provided further, That before any lien is released under this section the Secretary of the Interior shall file a written report finding that the contracting irrigation district is legally organized under the laws of the State in which its lands are located, with full power to enter into the contract and to collect by assessment and levy against the lands of the district the amount of the contract obligation. (May 15, 1922, ch. 190, § 2, 42 Stat. 542.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 513 of this title. § 513. Lands in project subject to provisions of chapter; after contract with irrigation district. Upon the execution of any contract between the United States and any irrigation district pursuant to sections 511 and 512 of this title the public lands included within such irrigation district, when subject to entry, and entered lands within such irrigation district, for which no final certificates shall have been issued and which may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior in said contract, shall be subject to all the provisions of chapter 13 of this title: Provided, That no map or plan as required by section 623 of this title need be filed by the irrigation district for approval by the Secretary of the Interior. (May 15, 1922, ch. 190, § 3, 42 Stat. 542.) SALE OR LEASE OF SURPLUS WATERS, WATER POWER, STORAGE CAPACITY, AND WATER TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES § 521. Sale of surplus waters generally. The Secretary of the Interior in connection with the operations under the reclamation law is authorized to enter into contract to supply water from any project irrigation system for other purposes than irrigation, upon such conditions of delivery, use, and payment as he may deem proper: Provided, That the approval of such contract by the water-users' association or associations shall have first been obtained: Provided, That no such contract shall be entered into except upon a showing that there is no other practicable source of water supply for the purpose: Provided further, That no water shall be furnished for the uses aforesaid if the delivery of such water shall be detrimental to the water service for such irrigation project. nor to the rights of any prior appropriator: Provided further, That the moneys derived from such contracts shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be placed to the credit of the project from which such water is supplied. (Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 86, 41 Stat. 451.) CROSS REFERENCES Municipal water supply and other miscellaneous purposes, see section 485h of this title. § 522. Lease of water power. Whenever a development of power is necessary for the irrigation of lands, under any project undertaken under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, or an opportunity is afforded for the development of power under any such project, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease for a period not exceeding ten years, giving preference to municipal purposes, any surplus power or power privilege, and the moneys derived from such leases shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be placed to the credit of the project from which such power is derived: Provided, That no lease shall be made of such surplus power or power privileges as will impair the efficiency of the irrigation project: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to make such a lease in connection with Rio Grande project in Texas and New Mexico for a longer period not exceeding fifty years, with the approval of the water-users' association or associations under any such project, organized in conformity with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior in pursuance of section 498 of this title. (Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, § 5, 34 Stat. 117; Feb. 24, 1911, ch. 155, 36 Stat. 930.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in the text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, which is classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. CROSS REFERENCES Sale of electric power and lease of power privileges. see section 485h (c) of this title. § 523. Storage and transportation of water for irrigation districts, etc. Whenever in carrying out the provisions of the reclamation law, storage or carrying capacity has been or may be provided in excess of the requirements of the lands to be irrigated under any project, the Secretary of the Interior, preserving a first right to lands and entrymen under the project, is authorized, upon such terms as he may determine to be just and equitable, to contract for the impounding, storage, and carriage of water to an extent not exceeding such excess capacity with irrigation systems operating under section 641 of this title, and individuals, corporations, associations, and irrigation districts organized for or engaged in furnishing or in distributing water for irrigation. Water so impounded, stored, or carried under any such contract shall be for the purpose of distribution to individual water users by the party with whom the contract is made: Provided, however, That water so impounded, stored, or carried shall not be used otherwise than as prescribed by law as to lands held in private ownership within Government reclamation projects. In fixing the charges under any such contract for impounding, storing, or carrying water for any irrigation system, corporation, association, district, or individual, as herein provided, the Secretary shall take into consideration the cost of construction and maintenance of the reservoir by which such water is to be impounded or stored and the canal by which it is to be carried, and such charges shall be just and equitable as to water users under the Government project. No irrigation system, district, association, corporation, or individual so contracting shall make any charge for the storage, carriage, or delivery of such water in excess of the charge paid to the United States except to such extent as may be reasonably necessary to cover cost of carriage and delivery of such water through their works. (Feb. 21, 1911, ch. 141, § 1, 36 Stat. 925.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 524, 525, 526 of this title. § 524. Cooperation with irrigation districts, etc., in construction of reservoirs and canals. In carrying out the provisions of the reclamation law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, upon such terms as may be agreed upon, to cooperate with irrigation districts, water-users' associations, corporations, entrymen, or water users for the construction or use of such reservoirs, canals, or ditches as may be advantageously used by the Government and irrigation districts, water-users' associations, corporations, entrymen, or water users for impounding, delivering, and carrying water for irrigation purposes: Provided, That the title to and management of the works so constructed shall be subject to the provisions of section 498 of this title: Provided further, That water shall not be furnished from any such reservoir or delivered through any such canal or ditch to any one landowner in excess of an amount sufficient to irrigate one hundred and sixty acres: Provided, That nothing contained in this section or section 523 of this title shall be held or construed as enlarging or attempting to enlarge the right of the United States, under existing law, to control the waters of any stream in any State. (Feb. 21, 1911, ch. 141, § 2, 36 Stat. 926.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 525, 526 of this title. § 525. Covering proceeds into reclamation fund. The moneys received in pursuance of the contracts authorized by sections 523 and 524 of this title shall be covered into the reclamation fund and be available for use under the terms of the reclamation law. (Feb. 21, 1911, ch. 141, § 3, 36 Stat. 926.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 526 of this title. § 526. Credit of proceeds to particular project. All moneys or profits as determined by the Secretary heretofore or hereafter derived from the sale or rental of surplus water under sections 523 to 525 of this title or from the connection of a new project with an existing project shall be credited to the project or division of the project to which the construction cost has been charged. (Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4. subsec. J, 43 Stat. 703.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 371, 417, 493, 500 of this title. PATENTS AND FINAL WATER-RIGHT CERTIFI CATES § 541. When patent or final certificate issued. Any homestead entryman under the Act of June 17, 1902, known as the Reclamation Act, including entrymen on ceded Indian lands, may, at any time after having complied with the provisions of law applicable to such lands as to residence reclamation, and cultivation, submit proof of such residence, reclamation, and cultivation, which proof, if found regular and satisfactory, shall entitle the entryman to a patent, and all purchasers of waterright certificates on reclamation projects shall be entitled to a final water-right certificate upon proof of the cultivation and reclamation of the land to which the certificate applies, to the extent required by the reclamation law for homestead entrymen: Provided, That no such patent or final water-right certificate shall issue until after the payment of all sums due the United States cn account of such land or water right at the time of the submission of proof entitling the homestead or desert-land entryman to such patent or the purchaser to such final waterright certificate. (Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 1, 37 Stat. 265; Feb. 15, 1917, ch. 71, 39 Stat. 920.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Act of June 17, 1902, known as the Reclamation Act, referred to in the text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, which is classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 512, 542, 544, 546, 593 of this title. § 542. Reservation of lien for charges; enforcement of lien; redemption. Every patent and water-right certificate issued under section 541 of this title shall expressly reserve to the United States a prior lien on the land patented or for which water right is certified, together with all water rights appurtenant or belonging thereto, superior to all other liens, claims, or demands whatsoever for the payment of all sums due or to become due to the United States or its successors in control of the irrigation project in connection with such lands and water rights. Upon default of payment of any amount so due title to the land shall pass to the United States free of all encumbrance, subject to the right of the defaulting debtor or any mortgagee, lien holder, judgment debtor, or subsequent purchaser to redeem the land within one year after the notice of such default shall have been given by payment of all moneys due, with 8 per centum interest and cost. And the United States, at its option, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, may cause land to be sold at any time after such failure to redeem, and from the proceeds of the sale there shall be paid into the reclamation fund all moneys due, with interest as herein provided, and costs. The balance of the proceeds, if any, shall be the property of the defaulting debtor or his assignee: Provided, That in case of sale after failure to redeem under this section the United States shall be authorized to bid in such land at not more than the amount in default, including interest and costs. (Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 2, 37 Stat. 266.) CROSS REFERENCES Release of Government liens after contract with irrigation districts, see section 512 of this title. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 512, 544, 546, 593 of this title. § 543. Certificate of final payment and release of lien. Upon full and final payment being made of all amounts due on account of the building and betterment charges to the United States or its successors in control of the project, the United States or its successors, as the case may be, shall issue upon request a certificate certifying that payment of the building and betterment charges in full has been made and that the lien upon the land has been so far satisfied and is no longer of any force or effect except the lien for annual charges for operation and maintenance. (Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 3, 37 Stat. 266.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 512, 544, 546, 593 of this title. § 544. Limitation as to holdings prior to final payment of charges; forfeiture of excess holding. No person shall at any one time or in any manner, except as hereinafter otherwise provided, acquire, own, or hold irrigable land for which entry or waterright application shall have been made under the said Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 and Acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, before final payment in full of all installments of building and betterment charges shall have been made on account of such land in excess of one farm unit as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior as the limit of area per entry of public land or per single ownership of private land for which & water right may be purchased respectively, nor in any case in excess of one hundred and sixty acres, nor shall water be furnished under said law nor a water right sold or recognized for such excess; but any such excess land acquired by foreclosure or other process of law, by conveyance in satisfaction of mortgages, by inheritance, or by devise, may be held for five years and no longer after its acquisition, and water may be temporarily furnished during that time; and every excess holding prohibited as aforesaid shall be forfeited to the United States by proceedings instituted by the Attorney General for that purpose in any court of competent jurisdiction. The above provision shall be recited in every patent and water-right certificate issued by the United States under the provisions of sections 541 to 543 of this title. (Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 3, 37 Stat. 266; July 11, 1956, ch. 563, § 2, 70 Stat. 524.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, and Acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, referred to in the text, are classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. AMENDMENTS 1956 Act July 11, 1956 increased the period during which land could be held from two years to five years, and to authorize the delivery of water for that period. AMENDMENT OF EXISTING CONTRACTS For provisions authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to amend existing contracts under the Federal reclamation laws to conform to the provisions of this section, see section 3 of act July 11, 1956, set out as a note under section 423e of this title. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451b, 512, 546, 593 of this title. § 545. Appointment of agents to receive payments; record of payments and amounts owing. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to designate such bonded fiscal agents or officers of the Bureau of Reclamation as he may deem advisable on each reclamation project, to whom shall be paid all sums due on reclamation entries or water rights, and the officials so designated shall keep a record for the information of the public of the sums paid and the amount due at any time on account of any entry made or water right purchased under the reclamation law; and the Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for furnishing copies of duly authenticated records of entries upon payment of reasonable fees which copies shall be admissible in evidence, as are copies authenticated under section 669 of Title 28. (Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 4, 37 Stat. 267.) REFERENCES IN TEXT Section 669 of Title 28, referred to in the text, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, and is now covered by section 1733 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS All functions of all other officers of the Department of the Interior and all functions of all agencies and employees of that Department were, with two exceptions, transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 512, 546, 593 of this title. § 546. Jurisdiction of district court for enforcement of sections 541 to 545. Jurisdiction of suits by the United States for the enforcement of the provisions of sections 541 to 545 of this title is conferred on the United States district courts of the districts in which the lands are situated. (Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 5, 37 Stat. 267.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 512, 593 of this title. § 547. Patent to desert-land entryman. Any desert-land entryman whose desert-land entry has been embraced within the exterior limits of any land withdrawal or irrigation project under the reclamation law, and who may have obtained a water supply for the land embraced in any such desertland entry from the reclamation project by the purchase of a water-right certificate, may at any time after having complied with the provisions of the law applicable to such lands and upon proof of the cultivation and reclamation of the land to the extent required by the reclamation law for homestead entrymen, submit proof of such compliance, which proof, if found regular and satisfactory, shall entitle the entryman to a patent and a final water-right certificate under the same terms and conditions as required of homestead entrymen under the six preceding sections. (Aug. 26, 1912, ch. 408, § 1, 37 Stat. 610.) TOWN SITES, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND SCHOOL SITES § 561. Withdrawal of land for town sites; reservation for public purposes. The Secretary of the Interior may withdraw from public entry any lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in each case, and survey and subdivide the same into town lots, with appropriate reservations for public purposes: Provided, That, whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, it shall be advisable for the public interest, he may withdraw and dispose of town sites in excess of one hundred and sixty acres. (Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, § 1, 34 Stat. 116; June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 4, 34 Stat. 520.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in the text, is classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 567, 568, 571 of this title. § 562. Appraisal and sale of town lots. The lots so surveyed shall be appraised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and sold under his direction at not less than their appraised value at public auction to the highest bidders, from time to time, for cash, and the lots offered for sale and not disposed of may afterwards be sold at not less than the appraised value under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Reclamation funds may be used to defray the necessary expenses of appraisement and sale, and the proceeds of such sales shall be covered into the reclamation fund. (Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, § 2, 34 Stat. 116.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 563, 564, 565, 567, 568 of this title. § 563. Disposal of town sites set apart prior to June 27, 1906. Any town site set apart or established prior to June 27, 1906, by proclamation of the President, under the provisions of sections 711 and 712 of this title, within or in the vicinity of any reclamation project, may be appraised and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of section 562 of this title |