[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: 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.