43 U.S.C. § 390qq — Isolated tracts

submitted 44 years ago by Pub. L. 97-293 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 64 words · no verdicts yet

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Federal ownership limits don't apply to isolated land tracts that only make economic sense within a larger farm. The Secretary must find the tract is truly isolated and farmable only that way. This applies even if adding the tract pushes the whole farm over the ownership limit.

Neither this subchapter's ownership limits nor the ownership limits anywhere else in federal reclamation law apply to land the Secretary finds to be an "isolated tract" — meaning it can only be farmed economically if it's included as part of a larger farming operation. This exception applies even though including the isolated tract in that larger operation might push the whole operation over the normal ownership limits.

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Neither the ownership limitations of this subchapter nor the ownership limitations of any other provision of Federal reclamation law shall apply to lands which are isolated tracts found by the Secretary to be economically farmable only if they are included in a larger farming operation but which may, as a result of their inclusion in that operation, cause it to exceed such ownership limitations.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 217, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1270.)

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1982Enacted · Pub. L. 97-293 · 96 Stat. 1270

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 97-293 on 1982-10-12.

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