FEDERAL · 43 U.S.C. · Chapter SUBCHAPTER VI—WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
Regulations as to use of water and requirements as to cultivation and reclamation of land; cancellation for noncompliance with requirements
43 U.S.C. § 440
Title43 — Public Lands
ChapterSUBCHAPTER VI—WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
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43 U.S.C. § 440.
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make general rules and regulations governing the use of water in the irrigation of the lands within any project, and may require the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-fourth the irrigable area under each water-right application or entry within three full irrigation seasons after the filing of water-right application or entry, and the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-half the irrigable area within five full irrigation seasons after the filing of the water-right application or entry, and shall provide for continued compliance with such requirements. Failure on the part of any water-right applicant or entryman to comply with such requirements shall render his application or entry subj
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(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, §8, 38 Stat. 688.)
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