---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 2202"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "2202"
heading: "Payments to agricultural producers for carrying out water conservation or water enhancing measures; criteria"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/2202"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Emergency Conservation Program"
---

# §2202. Payments to agricultural producers for carrying out water conservation or water enhancing measures; criteria


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to make payments to agricultural producers who carry out emergency water [conservation](/usc/16/6456.md?p=2) or water enhancing measures (including measures carried out to assist confined livestock) during periods of severe drought as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–334, title IV, § 402, Aug. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 434; Pub. L. 101–82, title V, § 502, Aug. 14, 1989, 103 Stat. 586; Pub. L. 115–334, title II, § 2403(a)(2)(A), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4571.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–334 substituted “The Secretary is” for “The Secretary of Agriculture is”.

1989—Pub. L. 101–82, § 502(1), inserted “(including measures carried out to assist confined livestock)”.

Pub. L. 101–82, § 502(2), temporarily substituted “any fiscal year in which there is a period of severe drought” for “periods of severe drought”. See Effective and Termination Dates of 1989 Amendment note below.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective and Termination Dates of 1989 Amendment

Pub. L. 101–82, title V, § 502(2), Aug. 14, 1989, 103 Stat. 586, provided in part that amendment by section 502(2) of Pub. L. 101–82 is effective only for fiscal year 1989.

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 406 of Pub. L. 95–334, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.