---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 389a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "389a"
heading: "Declaring lands to be temporarily nonirrigable"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/389a"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Irrigation of Allotted Lands"
---

# §389a. Declaring lands to be temporarily nonirrigable


Where the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) finds that any such lands cannot be cultivated profitably due to a present lack of water supply, proper drainage facilities, or need of additional construction work, he shall declare such lands temporarily nonirrigable for periods not to exceed five years and no charges shall be assessed against such lands during such periods.


## Source credit

(June 22, 1936, ch. 692, § 2, 49 Stat. 1804.)