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title: "43 U.S.C. § 386"
description: "Application of excess-land provisions of reclamation laws to certain lands"
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title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
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chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
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# 43 U.S.C. § 386 - Application of excess-land provisions of reclamation laws to certain lands

## Text

The excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws shall not be applicable to lands which on June 16, 1938, had an irrigation water supply from sources other than a Federal reclamation project and which will receive a supplemental supply from the Colorado-Big Thompson project.

(June 16, 1938, ch. 485, 52 Stat. 764.)