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

# §389b. Elimination to permanently nonirrigable lands


Where the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) finds that any such lands are permanently nonirrigable he may, with the consent of the landowner, eliminate such lands from the project.


## Source credit

(June 22, 1936, ch. 692, § 3, 49 Stat. 1804.)