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[CITE: 43USC440]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
        SUBCHAPTER VI--WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
 
Sec. 440. Regulations as to use of water and requirements as to 
        cultivation and reclamation of land; cancellation for 
        noncompliance with requirements
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make general rules 
and regulations governing the use of water in the irrigation of the 
lands within any project, and may require the reclamation for 
agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-fourth the irrigable 
area under each water-right application or entry within three full 
irrigation seasons after the filing of water-right application or entry, 
and the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of 
one-half the irrigable area within five full irrigation seasons after 
the filing of the water-right application or entry, and shall provide 
for continued compliance with such requirements. Failure on the part of 
any water-right applicant or entryman to comply with such requirements 
shall render his application or entry subject to cancellation.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 8, 38 Stat. 688.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 475 of this title.
