[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: 43CFR2524.4]

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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. 2524.4  Beginning of period for compliance with the law.

    If, after investigation the irrigation project has been or may be 
abandoned by the Government, the time for compliance with the law by the 
entryman shall begin to run from the date of notice of such abandonment 
of the project and of the restoration to the public domain of the lands 
which had been withdrawn in connection with the project. If, however, 
the reclamation project is carried to completion by the Government and a 
water supply has been made available for the land embraced in such 
desert-land entry, the

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entryman must, if he depends on the Government's project for his water 
supply, comply with all provisions of the reclamation law, and must 
under the Act of June 6, 1930 (46 Stat. 502; 43 U.S.C. 448), relinquish 
or assign in not less than 2 years after notice all the land embraced in 
his entry in excess of one farm unit, and upon making final proof and 
complying with the regulations of the Department applicable to the 
remainder of the irrigable land of the project and with the terms of 
payment prescribed in the reclamation law, he shall be entitled to 
patent as to such retained farm unit, and final water-right certificate 
containing lien as provided for by the Act of August 9, 1912 (37 Stat. 
265; 43 U.S.C. 541-546), Act of August 26, 1912 (37 Stat. 610; 43 U.S.C. 
547), and the Act of February 15, 1917 (39 Stat. 920; 43 U.S.C. 541), or 
to patent without a lien if provision therefor shall have been made as 
provided for by the Act of May 15, 1922 (42 Stat. 541; 43 U.S.C. 511-
513).