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[CITE: 43USC451d]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
          SUBCHAPTER VII--EXCHANGE AND AMENDMENT OF FARM UNITS
 
Sec. 451d. Disposal of improvements; water rights; revertibility 
        of relinquished land
        
    Within ninety days after receipt of notice of the approval by the 
Secretary of the application for exchange of entry and subject to the 
rights and interests of other parties, the entryman may dispose of, and 
he or his transferee or vendee may remove, any and all improvements 
placed on the relinquished unit. Upon the making of an exchange under 
this subchapter, any water right appurtenant to the original lands under 
the Federal reclamation laws shall cease and the water supply 
theretofore used or required to satisfy such right shall be available 
for disposition under those laws. Any land relinquished or conveyed to 
the United States under this subchapter shall revert to or become a part 
of the public domain and be subject to disposition by the Secretary 
under any of the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws.

(Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, Sec. 5, 67 Stat. 567.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in text, include the act 
of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the 
Reclamation Act, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, 
classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of act 
June 17, 1902, to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 
371 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 451a, 451k of this title.
