43 USC § 390nn - Trusts

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s390nn"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 390nn - Trusts"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "390nn"
section_name: "Trusts"
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, § 214, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1270; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5302(b), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–269.)"
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# § 390nn. Trusts

**(a)** The ownership and full cost pricing limitations of this subchapter and the ownership limitations provided in any other provision of Federal reclamation law shall not apply to lands in a district which are held by an individual or corporate trustee in a fiduciary capacity for a beneficiary or beneficiaries whose interests in the lands served do not exceed the ownership and pricing limitations imposed by Federal reclamation law, including this subchapter.

**(b)** Lands placed in a revocable trust shall be attributable to the grantor if—

**(1)** the trust is revocable at the discretion of the grantor and revocation results in the title to such lands reverting either directly or indirectly to the grantor; or

**(2)** the trust is revoked or terminated by its terms upon the expiration of a specified period of time and the revocation or termination results in the title to such lands reverting either directly or indirectly to the grantor.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 214, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1270; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5302(b), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–269.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Federal reclamation law, referred to in subsec. (a), is defined in .

### Amendments

1987— designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).