43 USC § 390dd - Limitation on ownership

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s390dd"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 390dd - Limitation on ownership"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "390dd"
section_name: "Limitation on ownership"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "I–A"
subchapter_name: "RECLAMATION REFORM"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 204, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1265.)"
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# § 390dd. Limitation on ownership

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.

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