(United States) Reclamation Act of 1902 An act passed by Congress on June 17, 1902 which created the U.S. Reclamation Service (USRS, renamed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, USBR, in 1923) as a separate entity within the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI), apart from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This act committed the federal government to construct irrigation projects in the West and reclaim arid lands for cultivation and settlement. The Truckee–Carson Irrigation Project, located in the lower Carson River Basin in Churchill County, Nevada, became the first reclamation irrigation project completed under this act. In 1919 this project would be renamed the Newlands Project in honor of one of the bill’s sponsors, Nevada’s U.S. Senator Francis G. Newlands. (Note: There had been some question as to whether the Salt River Project in Arizona or the Truckee–Carson Irrigation Project in Nevada was the first federally-approved and federally-funded reclamation project. Actually, the Truckee–Carson Project was one of five projects to be recommended by the Director of the U.S. Reclamation Service. The Truckee–Carson Irrigation Project was authorized on March 14, 1903 and the first water became available on April 1, 1905. The Salt River Project was also authorized on March 14, 1903, construction began August 24, 1903 and the first water became available May 15, 1907, two years after the Truckee–Carson Project began operations.)
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