43 CFR § 2520.0-5 - Definitions.

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title: "43 CFR § 2520.0-5 - Definitions."
title_number: 43
title_name: "Public Lands: Interior"
section_number: "2520.0-5"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
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subchapter_name: "LAND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (2000)"
part_number: "2520"
part_name: "DESERT-LAND ENTRIES"
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# 2520.0-5 Definitions.

(a) As used in the desert-land laws and the regulations of this subpart:

(1) *Reclamation* requires conducting water in adequate amounts and quality to the land so as to render it available for distribution when needed for irrigation and cultivation.

(2) *Cultivation* requires the operation, practice, or act of tillage or preparation of land for seed, and keeping the ground in a state favorable for the growth of crops.

(3) *Irrigation* requires the application of water to land for the purpose of growing crops.

(4) *Crop* includes any agricultural product to which the land under consideration is generally adapted and which would return a fair reward for the expense of producing it.

(5) *Water supply,* to be adequate, must be sufficient to irrigate successfully and to reclaim all of the irrigable land embraced in an entry.

(6) *Water right* means the authority, whether by prior ownership, contract, purchase, or appropriation in accordance with state law, to use water on the land to be irrigated.