43 U.S.C. § 451e — Amendment of farm unit; application; amount of land; exchange; waiver

submitted 73 years ago by ch. 428 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 194 words · no verdicts yet

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If a settler's farm unit is too small, the Secretary can enlarge it by combining it with other open land on the same project — up to 320 total acres and 160 irrigable acres. Accepting this bigger unit counts as an official trade. Some requirements can be waived for private landowners.

If a settler on a federal irrigation project applies in time, and the Secretary finds — using a land classification — that the settler's unpatented farm unit is too small to support a family, the Secretary may, on terms that satisfy the Secretary, amend that farm unit. This can mean combining all or part of it with other land on the same project (whether next to it or not) that the Secretary has declared open for claiming or purchase, creating a new, larger ("amended") farm unit for the settler — but never more than three hundred twenty acres total, with no more than one hundred sixty acres of irrigable land, as the Secretary designates. If the settler accepts this amended unit, that counts as an "exchange" under this subchapter. When extending this benefit to a resident owner of private land under section 451a, the Secretary may waive, in whole or in part, the requirement in clause (iii) of section 451a(b) — that the owner give up all their project land to the United States free of debts.

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Upon timely application by an entryman on an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation project, which shall be found by the Secretary, pursuant to a land classification, to be insufficient to support a family, the Secretary may, upon terms and conditions satisfactory to him, amend the farm unit of said entryman, combine all or a part of the lands of said farm unit with other contiguous or noncontiguous lands on the same project which are declared by the Secretary to be open to entry or purchase, and thereby form and designate an amended farm unit for said entryman, which in no event shall exceed three hundred and twenty acres of land containing not more than one hundred and sixty irrigable acres designated by the Secretary. The acceptance of the amended farm unit by the applicant shall be deemed an exchange within the meaning of this subchapter. In extending the benefits of this section to a resident owner of private lands as provided in section 451a of this title, the Secretary may waive, in whole or in part, the provisions of clause (iii) of subsection (b) of section 451a of this title.

Source credit: (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 6, 67 Stat. 567.)

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1953Enacted · Act of Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428 · 67 Stat. 567

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