Section 299-M. County small watershed protection districts

The board of
  supervisors  of  each  county  may  establish  or  extend  county  small
  watershed  protection  districts in the manner hereinafter provided, for
  the purpose of undertaking, constructing and  maintaining  projects  and
  works  of  improvement for flood prevention, land treatment, and for the
  conservation, development, disposal and utilization of  water  including
  but  not  limited  to  use for irrigation in watershed and sub-watershed
  areas as provided for in the federal act approved August four,  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-four, and known as public law five hundred sixty-six, and
  as the "Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention  Act",  and  all  acts
  amendatory  thereof  and  supplemental  thereto,  and which projects and
  works of improvement have  been  or  may  be  approved  by  the  federal
  government and for which federal financial and other forms of assistance
  shall be made available.