§ 433. Character and capital qualification of entry men. The Secretary is authorized, under regulations to be promulgated by him, to require of each applicant including preference right ex-service men for entry to public lands on a project, such qualifications as to industry, experience, character, and capital, as in his opinion are necessary to give reasonable assurance of success by the prospective settler. The Secretary is authorized to appoint boards in part composed of private citizens, to assist in determining such qualifications. (Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. C, 43 Stat. 702.) ADVANCES BY FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AS CAPITAL Act Aug. 7, 1939, ch. 509, 53 Stat. 1238, as amended June 17, 1940, ch. 390, 54 Stat. 402, provided the Secretary of Interior is authorized during fiscal year 1941 to consider money made available to settlers by the former Farm Security Administration to be all or part of the capital required under this section. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 371, 417, 493, 500, 617h of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 433a. Preference of needy families. It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that, in the opening to entry of newly irrigated public lands, preference shall be given to families who have no other means of earning a livelihood, or who have been compelled to abandon, through no fault of their own, other farms in the United States, and with respect to whom it appears after careful study, in the case of each such family, that there is a probability that such family will be able to earn a livelihood on such irrigated lands. (June 18, 1940, ch. 395, § 1, 54 Stat. 439.) § 434. Amount of land for which entry may be made; farm unit; subdivision of lands. Public lands which it is proposed to irrigate by means of any contemplated works shall be subject to entry in tracts of not less than forty nor more than one hundred and sixty acres: Provided, That whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, by reason of market conditions and the special fitness of the soil and climate for the growth of fruit and garden produce, a lesser area than forty acres may be sufficient for the support of a family on lands to be irrigated under the provisions of the reclamation law, he may fix a lesser area than forty acres as the minimum entry and may establish farm units of not less than ten nor more than one hundred and sixty acres. Wherever it may be necessary, for the purpose of accurate description, to further subdivide lands to be irrigated under the provisions of said reclamation law, the Secretary of the Interior may cause subdivision surveys to be made by the officers of the Bureau of Reclamation, which subdivisions shall be rectangular in form, except in cases where irregular subdivisions may be necessary in order to provide for practicable and economical irrigation. Such subdivision surveys shall be noted upon the tract books in the Bureau of Land Management, and they shall be paid for from the reclamation fund: Provided. That an entryman may elect to enter under said reclamation law a lesser area than the minimum limit in any State or Territory. (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 3, 32 Stat. 388; June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 1, 34 Stat. 519; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F. R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS "Bureau of Land Management" was substituted for "General Land Office" on authority of 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3. See note under former section 1 of this title. SECTION AS UNAFFECTED BY SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title. CROSS REFERENCES Grand Teton National Park, withdrawn lands within exterior boundary, use of reclamation purposes, see section 406d-5 of Title 16, Conservation. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 164, 238, 372, 373, 383, 391, 411, 416, 420, 421, 432, 491, 498 of this title; title 12 section 773; title 16 section 406d-5; title 30 section 125. § 435. Entries in excess of farm unit. All entries under reclamation projects containing more than one farm unit shall be reduced in area and conformed to a single farm unit within two years after making proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation, or within two years after the issuance of a farm-unit plat for the project, if the same issues subsequent to the making of such proof: Provided, That such proof is made within four years from the date as announced by the Secretary of the Interior that water is available for delivery for the land. Any entryman failing within the period herein provided to dispose of the excess of his entry above one farm unit, in the manner provided by law, and to conform his entry to a single farm unit shall render his entry subject to cancellation as to the excess above one farm unit: Provided, That upon compliance with the provisions of law such entryman shall be entitled to receive a patent for that part of his entry which conforms to one farm unit as established for the project. (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 13, 38 Stat. 690.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 238, 465, 475 of this title. § 436. Time when entry may be made generally. After June 25, 1910, no entry shall be made and no entryman shall be permitted to go upon lands reserved for irrigation purposes until the Secretary of the Interior shall have established the unit of acreage per entry, and water is ready to be delivered for the land in such unit or some part thereof and such fact has been announced by the Secretary of the Interior. (June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 5, 36 Stat. 836; Feb. 18, 1911, ch. 111, 36 Stat. 917; Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 10, 38 Stat. 689.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 447, 465 of this title. § 437. Lands as to which entries made prior to June 25, 1910, have been relinquished. Where entries made prior to June 25, 1910, have been or may be relinquished, in whole or in part, the lands so relinquished shall be subject to settlement and entry under the reclamation law. (June 25, 1910, ch. 407, § 5, 36 Stat. 836; Feb. 18, 1911, ch. 111, 36 Stat. 917; Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, $ 10, 38 Stat. 689.) from the United States a patent for the lands: Provided, That all assignments made under the provisions of this section shall be subject to the limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of the reclamation law. (June 23, 1910, ch. 357, 36 Stat. 592; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F. R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 465, 475 of this title. § 438. Repealed. Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 10, 67 Stat. 568. Section, acts Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 76, 41 Stat. 434; Jan. 21, 1922, ch. 32, § 1, 42 Stat. 358; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4 (m), 43 Stat. 7031, related to exchange of farm unit, and is now covered by sections 451-451k of this title. § 439. Cultivation requirement as to entrymen. The entryman upon lands to be irrigated shall, in addition to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes. (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 5, 32 Stat. 389.) SECTION AS UNAFFECTED BY SUBMERGED LANDS ACT Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title. CROSS REFERENCES Grand Teton National Park, withdrawn lands within exterior boundary, use for reclamation purposes, see section 406d-5 of Title 16, Conservation. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 164, 238, 372, 373, 383, 391, 411, 416, 420, 421, 432, 491, 498 of this title; title 12 section 773; title 16 section 406d-5; title 30 section 125. § 440. Regulations as to use of water and requirements as to cultivation and reclamation of land; cancellation for noncompliance with requirements. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make general rules and regulations governing the use of water in the irrigation of the lands within any project, and may require the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-fourth the irrigable area under each water-right application or entry within three full irrigation seasons after the filing of water-right application or entry, and the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-half the irrigable area within five full irrigation seasons after the filing of the waterright application or entry, and shall provide for continued compliance with such requirements. Failure on the part of any water-right applicant or entryman to comply with such requirements shall render his application or entry subject to cancellation. (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 8, 38 Stat. 688.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 465, 475 of this title. § 441. Assignment of entries generally. From and after the filing with the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate of satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for the five years required by law, persons who have, or shall make, homestead entries within reclamation projects under the provisions of the reclamation law, may assign such entries, or any part thereof, to other persons, and such assignees, upon submitting proof of the reclamation of the lands and upon payment of the charges apportioned against the same as provided in the said law, may receive TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS "Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate" was substituted for "Commissioner of the General Land Office" by 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3. See note under former section 1 of this title. CROSS REFERENCES Application of this section to Flathead irrigation project in Montana, see section 593 of this title. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 442, 455b, 593, 626 of this title. § 442. Assignment between June 23, 1910, and January 1, 1913, confirmed. In the absence of any intervening valid adverse interests any assignment made between June 23, 1910, and January 1, 1913, of land upon which the assignor has submitted satisfactory final proof and the assignee purchased with the belief that the assignment was valid and under section 441 of this title, is confirmed, and the assignee shall be entitled to the land assigned as under section 441 of this title, notwithstanding that said original entry was conformed to farm units and that the part assigned was canceled and eliminated from said entry prior to the date of final proof: Provided, That all entries so assigned shall be subject to the limitations, terms, and conditions of the reclamation law, and all of said assignees whose entries are confirmed shall, as a condition to receiving patent, make the proof required, prior to May 8, 1916, of assignees. (June 23, 1910, ch. 357, 36 Stat. 592; May 8, 1916, ch. 114, 39 Stat. 65.) CROSS REFERENCES Application of this section to Flathead irrigation project in Montana, see section 593 of this title. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 593 of this title. § 443. Limitation of amount of land holdable under assignment of entry. No person shall hold by assignment more than one farm unit prior to final payment of all charges for all the land held by him subject to the reclamation law, except.operation and maintenance charges not then due. (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 13, 38 Stat. 690.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 238, 465, 475 of this title. §§ 444, 445. Omitted. CODIFICATION Sections, acts June 25, 1910, ch. 432, 36 Stat. 864; Apr. 30, 1912, ch. 100, 37 Stat. 105, excused entrymen from residence requirements on land to be irrigated, located prior to June 25, 1910, prior to time when water became available for irrigation. § 446. Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws. Wherever the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of the reclamation law, shall acquire by relinquishment lands covered by a bona fide unperfected entry under the land laws of the United States, the entryman upon such tract may make another and additional entry, as though the entry thus relinquished nad not been made. (June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.) § 447. Relinquishment of homestead entry and making new entry. Any person who prior to March 4, 1915, made homestead entry under the reclamation law, for land believed to be susceptible of irrigation which at the time of said entry was withdrawn for any contemplated irrigation project, may relinquish the same, provided that it has since been determined that the land embraced in such entry or all thereof in excess of twenty acres is not or will not be irrigable under the project, and in lieu thereof may select and make entry for any farm unit included within such irrigation project as finally established, notwithstanding the provisions of section 436 of this title: Provided, That such entrymen shall be given credit on the new entry for the time of bona fide residence maintained on the original entry. (Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 182, 38 Stat. 1215.) § 448. Desert-land entries within reclamation project generally. Where any bona fide desert-land entry has been or may be embraced within the exterior limits of any land withdrawal or irrigation project under the Act of June 17, 1902, and the desert-land entryman has been or may be directly or indirectly hindered, delayed, or prevented from making improvements or from reclaiming the land embraced in any such entry by reason of such land withdrawal or irrigation project, the time during which the desert-land entryman has been or may be so hindered, delayed, or prevented from complying with the desert-land law shall not be computed in determining the time within which such entryman has been or may be required to make improvements or reclaim the land embraced within any such desert-land entry: Provided, That if after investigation the irrigation project has been or may be abandoned by the Government, time for compliance with the desert-land law by any such entryman shall begin to run from the date of notice 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 improvements 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 Act of June 17, 1902, and shall relinquish within a reasonable time after notice as the Secretary 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 prescribed in said Act of June 17, 1902, and not other wise. But nothing herein contained shall be held to require a desert-land entryman who owns a water right and reclaims the land embraced 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.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Act of June 17, 1902, and the Reclamation Act, referred to in the text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, which is classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. AMENDMENTS 1930-Act June 6, 1930, among other changes, inserted "within a reasonable time after notice as the Secretary may prescribe and not less than two years", "regulations of the sald Secretary applicable to the remainder of the irrigable land of the project", and substituted provisions specifying one farm unit, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior for provisions specifying 160 acres. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 449, 451h of this title. § 449. Assignment of desert-land entry within project. A desert-land entry within the exterior limits of a Government reclamation project may be assigned in whole or in part under section 324 of this title, and the benefits and limitations of section 448 of this title shall apply to such desert-land entryman and his assignees: Provided, That all such assignments shall conform to and be in accordance with farm units to be established by the Secretary of the Interior upon the application of the desert-land entryman. All such assignments made in good faith prior to July 24, 1912, shall be recognized under this section. (July 24, 1912, ch. 251, 37 Stat. 200.) EXCHANGE AND AMENDMENT OF FARM UNITS § 451. Conditions necessary for exchange; terms; credits; rights nonassignable. 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 sections 451 to 451k of this title shall not be assignable. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 1, 67 Stat. 566.) CROSS REFERENCES Columbia Basin Project, qualification of applicants for purchase of land prescribed by this section, see section 835c (b) of Title 16, Conservation. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451a, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451f, 451g, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451a. Persons eligible for benefits. The benefits of section 451 of this title 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 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. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 2, 67 Stat. 566.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451f, 451g, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. §451b. Irrigation construction charges. (a) Credits to entryman. If an entryman making an exchange under the provisions of sections 451 to 451k of this title 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 sections 451 to 451k of this title 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 said sections, the Secretary may reduce (1) 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 thereof upon which the lieu farm unit is located by the amount of credit which might be given under the provisions of this section. (c) Extension of benefits to districts. In any case in which the benefits of sections 451 to 451k of this title are extended to an assignee of an unpatented farm unit or to a resident owner of private lands, as provided in subsection (b) of section 451a of this title, an appropriate extension of benefits may also be made to an irrigation district or other form of organization under subsection (b) of this section. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, §3,67 Stat. 566.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451f, 451g, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451c. Cancellation of charges or liens; credits. (a) After his approval of any application for an exchange as provided in sections 451 to 451k of this title, the Secretary may cancel and release, in whole or in part, any and all charges or liens against the entryman or against the relinquished farm unit which are within his administrative jurisdiction. In administering the provisions of this subsection the Secretary shall take into consideration other charges and liens and the rights and interests of other lien holders as to him may seem just and equitable. (b) An entryman making an exchange under the provisions of sections 451 to 451k of this title may be given credit by the Secretary upon any land development charges made by the United States in connection with the lieu farm unit for any such charges paid to the United States in connection with the original unit. A resident owner making an exchange under the provisions of said sections may, to the extent to which he or, in the case of a widow, widower, heir, or devisee, his spouse or ancestor, as the case may be, has paid to the United States the purchase price of the original farm unit, be given credit by the Secretary upon the purchase price of his lieu farm unit; such credit may also be applied in the manner and circumstances provided in section 451b of this title upon irrigation construction charges for or properly assignable to his lieu farm unit. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 4, 67 Stat. 567.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451d, 451e, 451f, 451g, 4511, 4511, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451d. Disposal of improvements; water rights; revertibility of relinquished land. Within ninety days after receipt of notice of the approval by the Secretary of the application for exchange of entry and subject to the rights and interests of other parties, the entryman may dispose of, and he or his transferee or vendee may remove, any and all improvements placed on the relinquished unit. Upon the making of an exchange under sections 451 to 451k of this title, any water right appurtenant to the original lands under the Federal reclamation laws shall cease and the water supply theretofore used or required to satisfy such right shall be available for disposition under those laws. Any land relinquished or conveyed to the United States under said sections shall revert to or become a part of the public domain and be subject to disposition by the Secretary under any of the provisions of the Federal reclamation laws. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 5, 67 Stat. 567.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451c, 451e, 451f, 451g, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451e. Amendment of farm unit; application; amount of land; exchange; waiver. 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 sections 451 to 451k of this title. In extending the benefits of this section to a resident owner of private lands as provided in section 451a of this title, the Secretary may waive, in whole or in part, the provisions of clause (iii) of subsection (b) of section 451a of this title. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 6, 67 Stat. 567.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451f, 451g, 4511, 4511, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451f. Exchanges subject to mortgage contracts. Any exchange pursuant to sections 451 to 451k of this title of land that is subject to a mortgage contract with the Secretary of Agriculture under sections 1006a and 1006b of Title 7, and any disposition pursuant to sections 451 to 451k of this title of property that is subject to such a mortgage contract, shall be effected only in such form and manner and upon such terms and conditions as are consistent with the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture over such mortgage contract and such property under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, as supplemented by sections 1006a and 1006b of Title 7. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 7, 67 Stat. 568.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, referred to in the text, refers to act July 22, 1937, ch. 517, 50 Stat. 522, as amended. Title III of act July 22, 1937, as amended, is classified to sections 1010-1012 and 1013a of Title 7, Agriculture. Titles I, II and IV of act July 22, 1937, as amended, were formerly classified to sections 1001-1005d, 1006c-1006e, 1007, 1008, 1009, and 1014-1025, 1027-1029 of Title 7, respectively, were repealed by section 341(a) of Pub. L. 87-128, title III, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 318, and are now covered by chapter 50 of Title 7. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451g, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451g. Preferences; veterans; timely applicants. Where there are two or more timely applicants for a farm unit on a particular project or division thereof under the provisions of sections 451 to 451k of this title, one or more of whom is an ex-serviceman who would be entitled under the applicable statutes to a preference in making entry of farm units on such project or division, the ex-serviceman, or one of them, shall have a preference in making such exchange. Any timely applicant for an exchange under the provisions of said sections shall be entitled to preference over any other applicant for a farm unit on the same project or division thereof. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 8, 67 Stat. 568.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451f, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451h. Establishment of farm units; size; contiguous or noncontiguous. In administering sections 434, 448, and 544 of this title, the Secretary may, to the extent found necessary as shown by a land classification to provide farm units sufficient in size to support a family, establish such units of not more than three hundred and twenty acres containing not more than one hundred and sixty irrigable acres designated by him and may permit entry and assignment under the homestead laws, and retention and assignment under the desert land laws, of such units. The lands included in farm units established pursuant to the authority of this section and entered under the homestead laws may be contiguous or noncontiguous. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 9, 67 Stat. 568.) SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451f, 451g, 4511, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451i. Definitions. As used in sections 451 to 451k of this title, 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 sections 451 to 451k of this title itself shall be deemed a supplement. (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 11, 67 stat. 568.) REFERENCES IN TEXT The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in the text, are classified generally to this title. See Tables for distribution. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in sections 451, 451a, 451b, 451c, 451d, 451e, 451f, 451g, 451j, 451k of this title; title 16 section 835c. § 451j. Rules and regulations. The Secretary may perform any and all acts and make all rules and regulations necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes of sections 451 to 451k |