[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: 43CFR2524.4]



[Page 120-121]

 

                    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which had been withdrawn in connection with the project.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).