[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR702.5]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 702--COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY (CRSC) CONTROL PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 702.5  Eligible land.

    For the purposes of this part, eligible land is land that is within 
the Colorado River Basin area which:
    (a) Has been identified by SCS as a salt source area;
    (b) Is the subject of a published USDA Salinity Control Report and 
an approved project implementation plan;
    (c) Has been irrigated at least two years during the period between 
1982 and 1986, inclusive; and
    (d) Notwithstanding the criteria articulated in paragraphs (a) 
through (c) of this section, the Deputy Administrator has final 
authority to approve land for CRSC program eligibility if one of the 
following conditions is satisfied:
    (1) If it is determined impossible to reorganize the existing 
irrigation system to increase irrigation efficiencies to obtain salt 
load reduction, irrigated land may be exchanged for nonirrigated land.
    (2) Nonirrigated wildlife areas devoted to replacing incidental fish 
and wildlife values foregone because of the CRSC program.
    (3) Incidental land, which in the course of improving or 
reorganizing the existing irrigation system, becomes irrigable.

[52 FR 16741, May 5, 1987, as amended at 58 FR 11785, Mar. 1, 1993]

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