[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: 43CFR2610.0-8]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 2610_CAREY ACT GRANTS--Table of Contents

 

                 Subpart 2610_Carey Act Grants, General

 

Sec.  2610.0-8  Lands subject to application.



    (a) The lands shall be unreclaimed desert lands capable of producing 

ordinary agricultural crops by irrigation.

    (b) The lands shall be nonmineral, except that lands withdrawn, 

classified or valuable for coal, phosphate, nitrate, potash, sodium, 

sulphur, oil, gas or asphaltic minerals may be applied for subject to a 

reservation of such deposit, as explained in subpart 2093 of this title.

    (c) Lands embraced in mineral permits of leases, or in applications 

for such permits or leases, or classified, withdrawn or reported as 

valuable for any leasable mineral, or lying within the geologic 

structure of a field are subject to the provisions of Sec.  Sec.  2093.0-

3 through 2093.0-7 of this title.



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    (d) A project or individual entry may consist of 2 or more 

noncontiguous parcels. However, noncontiguous lands should be in a 

pattern compact enough to be managed as an efficient, economic unit.