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43 U.S.C. § 375b — Disposal of tracts too small to be classed farm units

submitted 76 years ago by ch. 78 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 131 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary of the Interior can dispose of leftover irrigation-project land that's too small to farm. This requires water being available and a finding that disposal helps the project. The land must be too small to support a family or count as a farm unit.

Sections 375b through 375f, taken together, let the Secretary of the Interior get rid of certain leftover public land tied to a federal irrigation project — even if some other law would normally say otherwise. This only applies to a federal irrigation project that has water available. The Secretary must first find that disposing of the land will help the project and fits the goals of the 1902 Reclamation Act. The land itself must be a withdrawn tract that, in the Secretary's judgment, is too small to support a family and too small to be opened for homestead entry or counted as a full "farm unit" under the Reclamation Act.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

In accordance with the provisions of sections 375b to 375f of this title and notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Secretary of the Interior, hereinafter styled the Secretary, is authorized, in connection with any Federal irrigation project for which water is available, and after finding that such action will be in furtherance of the irrigation project and the Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, hereinafter styled the Reclamation Act, to dispose of any tract of withdrawn public land which, in the opinion of the Secretary, has less than sufficient acreage reasonably required for the support of a family and is too small to be opened to homestead entry and classed as a farm unit under the Reclamation Act.

Source credit: (Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78, § 1, 64 Stat. 39.)

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  • 1950Enacted · Act of Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78 · 64 Stat. 39

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 78 on 1950-03-31.

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