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[CITE: 43USC623]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 13--FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDED IN STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
 
Sec. 623. Map of district and plan of irrigation project; 
        approval by Secretary
        
    No unentered lands and no entered lands for which no final 
certificates have been issued shall be subject to the lien or liens 
herein contemplated until there shall have been submitted by said 
irrigation district to the Secretary of the Interior, and approved by 
him, a map or plat of said district and sufficient detailed engineering 
data to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior 
the sufficiency of the water supply and the feasibility of the project, 
and which shall explain the plan or mode of irrigation in those 
irrigation districts where the irrigation works have not been 
constructed, and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate 
and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural 
crops, and which shall also show the source of water to be used for 
irrigation of land included in said district: Provided, That in those 
irrigation districts organized prior to August 11, 1916, and whose 
irrigation works had then been constructed and were then in operation as 
soon as a satisfactory map, plat, and plan shall have been approved by 
the Secretary of the Interior, as in this chapter provided, such entered 
and unentered lands shall be subject to all district taxes and 
assessments theretofore actually levied against the lands in said 
district and in the same manner in which lands of a like character held 
under private ownership are subject to liens and assessments.

(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, Sec. 3, 39 Stat. 507.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of section 3 (less the first proviso) of act 
Aug. 11, 1916. The remainder of section 3 is classified to section 625 
of this title.


                            Cross References

    Map or plan required by this section need not be filed with 
irrigation district for approval of Secretary of the Interior where 
there is a contract between United States and an irrigation district, 
see section 513 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 513, 621 of this title.
