[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: 43CFR2524.1]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2520_DESERT-LAND ENTRIES--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart 2524_Desert-Land Entries Within a Reclamation Project
 
Sec. 2524.1  Conditions excusing entrymen from compliance with the 
desert-land laws.

    Authority: Sec. 10, 32 Stat. 390; as amended; 43 U.S.C. 373.

    Source: 35 FR 9588, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) By section 5 of the Act of June 27, 1906 (34 Stat. 520, 43 
U.S.C. 448), it is provided that any desert-land

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entryman who has been or may be directly or indirectly hindered or 
prevented from making improvements on or from reclaiming the lands 
embraced in his entry, by reason of the fact that such lands have been 
embraced within the exterior limits of any withdrawal under the 
Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388; 43 U.S.C. 372 et seq.) 
will be excused during the continuance of such hindrance from complying 
with the provisions of the desert-land laws.
    (b) Persons excused from compliance with the desert-land laws. 
Section 5 of the Act of June 27, 1906, applies only to persons who have 
been, directly or indirectly, delayed or prevented, by the creation of 
any reclamation project, or by any withdrawal of public lands under the 
reclamation law, from improving or reclaiming the lands covered by their 
entries.
    (c) Statement required to warrant excuse. No entryman will be 
excused under this act from a compliance with all of the requirements of 
the desert-land law until he has filed in the proper office for the 
district in which his lands are situated a statement showing in detail 
all of the facts upon which he claims the right to be excused. This 
statement must show when the hindrance began, the nature, character, and 
extent of the same, and it must be corroborated by two disinterested 
persons, who can testify from their own personal knowledge.