Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§451 Conditions Necessary for Exchange; Terms; Credits; Rights Nonassignable
Title 43 › Chapter 12— RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter VII— EXCHANGE AND AMENDMENT OF FARM UNITS › § 451
Summary
If the Secretary of the Interior finds someone's unpatented farm unit on a federal irrigation project cannot support a family, they may apply to exchange it for another public farm unit in any such project on terms the Secretary approves. Homestead credit for residence, improvement, and cultivation on the original entry carries over, and final proof already given counts. These rights cannot be transferred.
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Title 43, §451
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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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43 U.S.C. § 451
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60