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43 U.S.C. § 451a — Persons eligible for benefits
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The benefits of [section 451 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section451&num=0&edition=prelim) shall, and those of sections 451b to 451k of this title may, be extended by the Secretary to (a) any lawful assignee of an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation project who took the assignment in good faith not knowing and not having reason to believe the farm unit to be insufficient to support a family; and (b) any resident owner of private lands on any such project whose lands shall be found to be insufficient to support a family and (i) who, apart from his ownership of the lands to be conveyed pursuant to clause (iii) hereof and apart from his having previously exhausted his homestead right, if such be the case, is eligible to enter unappropriated public lands under section 161 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, (ii) who lawfully acquired his lands as an entire farm unit under the Federal reclamation laws from the United States or, in the case of a widow, widower, heir, or devisee, from a spouse or ancestor, as the case may be, who so acquired them, and (iii) who conveys, free from all encumbrances, to the United States all of his lands served by the project or such portion thereof as the Secretary may designate.
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The benefits of [section 451 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section451&num=0&edition=prelim) shall, and those of sections 451b to 451k of this title may, be extended by the Secretary to (a) any lawful assignee of an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation project who took the assignment in good faith not knowing and not having reason to believe the farm unit to be insufficient to support a family; and (b) any resident owner of private lands on any such project whose lands shall be found to be insufficient to support a family and (i) who, apart from his ownership of the lands to be conveyed pursuant to clause (iii) hereof and apart from his having previously exhausted his homestead right, if such be the case, is eligible to enter unappropriated public lands under section 161 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, (ii) who lawfully acquired his lands as an entire farm unit under the Federal reclamation laws from the United States or, in the case of a widow, widower, heir, or devisee, from a spouse or ancestor, as the case may be, who so acquired them, and (iii) who conveys, free from all encumbrances, to the United States all of his lands served by the project or such portion thereof as the Secretary may designate.
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As used in this subchapter, the term “Federal irrigation project” means any irrigation project subject to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), to which laws this subchapter itself shall be deemed a supplement.
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Any entryman on an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation project which shall be found by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to a land classification, to be insufficient to support a family shall be entitled, upon timely application to the Secretary to exchange his farm unit for another farm unit of unentered public land within the same or any other such project, or, upon terms and conditions satisfactory to the Secretary, for any other available farm unit on the same or any other such project. He shall be given credit under the homestead laws for residence, improvement, and cultivation made or performed upon the original entry, and if satisfactory final proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation has been made on the original entry it shall not be necessary to submit such proof upon the lieu entry. Rights under this subchapter shall not be assignable.
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**(a) Credits to entryman** If an entryman making an exchange under the provisions of this subchapter becomes the direct obligor for payment to the United States of irrigation construction charges for his lieu farm unit or undertakes a contract under which the equivalent, in whole or in part, of such charges is returned to the United States, the Secretary, to the extent to which such charges upon the original farm unit or the equivalent thereof have actually been paid to the United States or to an irrigation district or other form of organization under contract with the United States, may give him credit for such charges upon the lieu unit.
**(b) Credits to district; reduction of costs** If an irrigation district or other form of organization within the boundaries of which is located the lieu farm unit of an entryman making an exchange under the provisions of this subchapter is or becomes the direct obligor for payment to the United States of irrigation construction charges or undertakes or has undertaken a contract under which the equivalent, in whole or in part, of such charges is returned to the United States, the Secretary may, to the extent to which it gives credit to the entryman for such charges or the equivalent thereof actually paid upon the original farm unit, give the district or other form of organization credit for payment of such charges. Upon the making of an exchange pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, the Secretary may reduce (i) the reimbursable construction costs of the project or division thereof upon which the original farm unit was located by the amount of such costs which were properly assignable to the original farm unit and which were not then due and payable, and (ii) the reimbursable construction costs of the project or division th
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Upon timely application by an entryman on an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation project, which shall be found by the Secretary, pursuant to a land classification, to be insufficient to support a family, the Secretary may, upon terms and conditions satisfactory to him, amend the farm unit of said entryman, combine all or a part of the lands of said farm unit with other contiguous or noncontiguous lands on the same project which are declared by the Secretary to be open to entry or purchase, and thereby form and designate an amended farm unit for said entryman, which in no event shall exceed three hundred and twenty acres of land containing not more than one hundred and sixty irrigable acres designated by the Secretary. The acceptance of the amended farm unit by the applicant shall be deemed an exchange within the meaning of this subchapter. In extending the benefits of this section to a resident owner of private lands as provided in [section 451a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section451a&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary may waive, in whole or in part, the provisions of clause (iii) of subsection (b) of [section 451a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section451a&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 451b
1 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘Act’’.
1 See References in Text note below.
entryman shall begin to run from the date of no-
tice of such abandonment of the project and the
restoration to the public domain of the lands
withdrawn in connection therewith, and credit
shall be allowed for all expenditures and im-
provements theretofore made on any such
desert-land entry of which proof has been or
may be filed; but if the reclamation project is
carried to completion so as to make available a
water supply for the land embraced in any such
desert-land entry the entryman shall thereupon
comply with all the provisions of the aforesaid
action 1 of June 17, 1902, and shall relinquish
within a reasonable time after notice as the Sec-
retary may prescribe and not less than two
years all land embraced within his desert-land
entry in excess of one farm unit, as determined
by the Secretary of the Interior, and as to such
retained farm unit he shall be entitled to make
final proof and obtain patent upon compliance
with the regulations of said Secretary applicable
to the remainder of the irrigable land of the
project and with the terms of payment pre-
scribed in said Act of June 17, 1902, and not oth-
erwise. But nothing herein contained shall be
held to require a desert-land entryman who
owns a water right and reclaims the land em-
braced in his entry to accept the conditions of
said reclamation Act.
(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 5, 34 Stat. 520; June 6,
1930, ch. 405, 46 Stat. 502.)
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REFERENCES IN TEXT
Act of June 17, 1902, and said reclamation Act, re-
ferred to in text, are act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat.
388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is
classified generally to this cha
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