Missouri Revised Statutes Title XVI. Conservation, Resources and Development § 256.440. Multipurpose water resource program established to ensure public water supply, treatment, and transmission facilities, department to administer--state may participate in water resource project, when--remittance of contributions

In order to ensure adequate, long-term, reliable public water supply, treatment, and transmission facilities, there is hereby established a “Multipurpose Water Resource Program”.  The program shall be administered by the department of natural resources.  The state may participate with a sponsor in the development, construction or renovation of a water resource project if the sponsor has a plan which has been submitted to and approved by the director.  Prior to approval, such plan shall include a schedule, proposed by the sponsor, to remit contributions back to the fund created under section 256.438.  Any money received by the department of natural resources as a result of its participation with any such sponsor shall be deposited in the multipurpose water resource program fund created under section 256.438.