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title: "25 U.S.C. § 389b"
description: "Elimination to permanently nonirrigable lands"
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# 25 U.S.C. § 389b - Elimination to permanently nonirrigable lands

## Text

Where the Secretary finds that any such lands are permanently nonirrigable he may, with the consent of the landowner, eliminate such lands from the project.

(June 22, 1936, ch. 692, § 3, 49 Stat. 1804.)