[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 43, Volume 2] [Revised as of October 1, 2006] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 43CFR2520.0-1] [Page 105-106] TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PART 2520_DESERT-LAND ENTRIES--Table of Contents Subpart 2520_Desert-Land Entries: General Sec. 2520.0-1 Purpose. Subpart 2520_Desert-Land Entries: General Sec. 2520.0-1 Purpose. 2520.0-3 Authority. 2520.0-5 Definitions. 2520.0-7 Cross references. 2520.0-8 Land subject to disposition. Subpart 2521_Procedures 2521.1 Who may make desert-land entry. 2521.2 Petitions and applications. 2521.3 Assignment. 2521.4 When lands may be sold, taxed, or mortgaged. [[Page 106]] 2521.5 Annual proof. 2521.6 Final proof. 2521.7 Amendments. 2521.8 Contests. 2521.9 Relinquishments. Subpart 2522_Extensions of Time To Make Final Proof 2522.1 General acts authorizing extensions of time. 2522.2 Procedure on applications for extensions of time, where contest is pending. 2522.3 Act of March 28, 1908. 2522.4 Act of April 30, 1912. 2522.5 Act of February 25, 1925. 2522.6 Service fees. Subpart 2523_Payments 2523.1 Collection of purchase money and fees; issuance of final certificate. 2523.2 Amounts to be paid. Subpart 2524_Desert-Land Entries Within a Reclamation Project 2524.1 Conditions excusing entrymen from compliance with the desert-land laws. 2524.2 Annual proof. 2524.3 Time extended to make final proof. 2524.4 Beginning of period for compliance with the law. 2524.5 Assignment of desert-land entries in whole or in part. 2524.6 Desert-land entryman may proceed independently of Government irrigation. 2524.7 Disposal of lands in excess of 160 acres. 2524.8 Cancellation of entries for nonpayment of water-right charges. Authority: R.S. 2478; 43 U.S.C. 1201. Source: 35 FR 9581, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted. (a) It is the purpose of the statutes governing desert-land entries to encourage and promote the reclamation, by irrigation, of the arid and semiarid public lands of the Western States through individual effort and private capital, it being assumed that settlement and occupation will naturally follow when the lands have thus been rendered more productive and habitable.