[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR418.10]

[Page 562-563]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
      CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 418--OPERATING CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR THE NEWLANDS RECLAMATION PROJECT, NEVADA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 418.10  Determining the amount of water duty to be delivered.

    (a) Eligible land may receive no more than the amount of water in 
acre-feet per year established as maximum farm

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headgate delivery allowances by the decrees. All water use is limited to 
that amount reasonably necessary for economical and beneficial use under 
the decrees.
    (b) The annual water duty as assigned by the decrees is a maximum of 
4.5 AF per acre for bench lands and a maximum of 3.5 AF per acre for 
bottom lands. The water duty for fields with a mixture of bench and 
bottom lands must be the water duty of the majority acreage. Bench and 
bottom land designations as finally approved by the United States 
District Court for the District of Nevada will be used in determining 
the maximum water duty for any parcel of eligible land. The annual water 
duty for pasture land established by contract is 1.5 AF per acre.