[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: 43CFR2520.0-5]



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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 2520_Desert-Land Entries: General

 

Sec.  2520.0-5  Definitions.



    (a) As used in the desert-land laws and the regulations of this 

subpart:

    (1) Reclamation requires conducting water in adequate amounts and 

quality to the land so as to render it available for distribution when 

needed for irrigation and cultivation.

    (2) Cultivation requires the operation, practice, or act of tillage 

or preparation of land for seed, and keeping the ground in a state 

favorable for the growth of crops.

    (3) Irrigation requires the application of water to land for the 

purpose of growing crops.

    (4) Crop includes any agricultural product to which the land under 

consideration is generally adapted and which would return a fair reward 

for the expense of producing it.

    (5) Water supply, to be adequate, must be sufficient to irrigate 

successfully and to reclaim all of the irrigable land embraced in an 

entry.

    (6) Water right means the authority, whether by prior ownership, 

contract, purchase, or appropriation in accordance with state law, to 

use water on the land to be irrigated.