[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2521.2]

[Page 112-113]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2520_DESERT-LAND ENTRIES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart 2521_Procedures
 
Sec. 2521.2  Petitions and applications.

    (a) Filing and fees. (1) A person who desires to enter public lands 
under the desert land laws must file an application together with a 
petition on forms approved by the Director, properly executed. However, 
if the lands described in the application have been already classified 
and opened for disposition under the desert land laws, no petition is 
required. The documents must be filed in the proper office (see Sec. 
1821.2-1 of this chapter).
    (2) All applications must be accompanied by an application service 
fee of $15 which is not returnable, and the payment of 25 cents per acre 
for the lands therein described as required by law.
    (b) Post-office addresses of applicants and witnesses. Applicants 
and witnesses must in all cases state their places of actual residence, 
their business or occupation, and their post-office addresses. It is not 
sufficient to name only the county or State in which a person lives, but 
the town or city must be named also; and where the residence is in a 
city the street and number must be given. It is especially important to 
claimants that upon changing their

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post-office addresses they promptly notify the authorizing officer of 
such change, for in case of failure to do so their entries may be 
canceled upon notice sent to the address of record but not received by 
them.
    (c) Execution of applications and proofs; time for filing of 
applications. (1) Applications and proofs, except final proofs required 
by R.S. 2294 (43 U.S.C. 254), must be signed by the applicants but need 
not be under oath. Final proofs may be executed before any officer 
authorized to administer oaths in public land cases, as explained by 
Sec. 1821.3-2 of this chapter.
    (2) An application to make desert-land entry is not acceptable if 
dated more than 10 days before its filing at the land office.
    (d) Evidence of water rights required with application. No desert-
land application will be allowed unless accompanied by evidence 
satisfactorily showing either that the intending entryman has already 
acquired by appropriation, purchase, or contract a right to the 
permanent use of sufficient water to irrigate and reclaim all of the 
irrigable portion of the land sought, or that he has initiated and 
prosecuted, as far as then possible, appropriate steps looking to the 
acquisition of such a right, or, in States where no permit or right to 
appropriate water is granted until the land embraced within the 
application is classified as suitable for desert-land entry or the entry 
is allowed, a showing that the applicant is otherwise qualified under 
State law to secure such permit or right. If applicant intends to 
procure water from an irrigation district, corporation, or association, 
but is unable to obtain a contract for the water in advance of the 
allowance of his entry, then he must furnish, in lieu of the contract, 
some written assurance from the responsible officials of such district, 
corporation, or association that, if his entry be allowed, applicant 
will be able to obtain from that source the necessary water. The 
authorizing officer will examine the evidence submitted in such 
applications and either reject defective applications or require 
additional evidence.