Irrigation District Act of 1916 (Smith Act)

Irrigation District Act of 1916 (Smith Act)
Long title	An Act to promote the reclamation of arid lands.
Nicknames	Reclamation and Irrigation Act of 1916
Enacted by	the 64th United States Congress
Effective	August 11, 1916
Citations
Public law	64-196
Statutes at Large	39 Stat. 506a
Codification
Titles amended	43 U.S.C.: Public Lands
U.S.C. sections created	43 U.S.C. ch. 13 § 621 et seq.
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 12365 by Addison T. Smith (R–ID); Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on August 11, 1916;

The Irrigation District Act of 1916 ('Irrigation Smith Act) authorized the federal government to serve as the guarantor of debt obligations entered into by local governments to finance the acquisition, extension, or operation of irrigation, drainage, and flood control projects or to develop power generation facilities or water resources.

It was sponsored by Senator Hoke Smith, Democrat of Georgia, a former Secretary of the Interior.

States had served localities in a similar fashion and provided the model for the federal legislation. California's Irrigation District Act dated from 1887^[1] and Colorado's from 1905.^[2]

References

^ Harding, S.T. (October 1950). "Background of California Water and Power Problems". California Law Review. 38 (4): 595.
^ Knight, Oliver (October 1956). "Correcting Nature's Error: The Colorado-Big Thompson Project". Agricultural History. 30 (4): 162.

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[1] Harding, S.T. (October 1950). "Background of California Water and Power Problems". California Law Review. 38 (4): 595.

[2] Knight, Oliver (October 1956). "Correcting Nature's Error: The Colorado-Big Thompson Project". Agricultural History. 30 (4): 162.

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