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title: "43 U.S.C. § 390dd"
description: "Limitation on ownership"
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title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
chapter_number: "12"
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
section: "390dd"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 390dd"
status: "current"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 43 U.S.C. § 390dd - Limitation on ownership

## Text

Except as provided in section 390ii of this title, irrigation water may not be delivered to—

(1) a qualified recipient for use in the irrigation of lands owned by such qualified recipient in excess of nine hundred and sixty acres of class I lands or the equivalent thereof; or

(2) a limited recipient for the use in the irrigation of lands owned by such limited recipient in excess of six hundred and forty acres of class I lands or the equivalent thereof;

whether situated in one or more districts.

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 204, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1265.)