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[CITE: 43USC421]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
        SUBCHAPTER III--INSTITUTION AND CONSTRUCTION OF PROJECTS
 
Sec. 421. Acquisition of lands for irrigation project; eminent 
        domain
        
    Where, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, it becomes 
necessary to acquire any rights or property, the Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized to acquire the same for the United States by 
purchase or by condemnation under judicial process, and to pay from the 
reclamation fund the sums which may be needed for that purpose, and it 
shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States upon 
every application of the Secretary of the Interior, under this Act, to 
cause proceedings to be commenced for condemnation within thirty days 
from the receipt of the application at the Department of Justice.

(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, Sec. 7, 32 Stat. 389.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, popularly known 
as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title 
note set out under section 371 of this Title and Tables.


              Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

    Provisions of this section as not amended, modified, or repealed by 
the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.


                            Cross References

    Grand Teton National Park, withdrawn lands within exterior boundary, 
use for reclamation purposes, see section 406d-5 of Title 16, 
Conservation.
