---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 390dd"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "390dd"
heading: "Limitation on ownership"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/390dd"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter I–A — Reclamation Reform"
---

# §390dd. Limitation on ownership


Except as provided in [section 390ii of this title](/usc/43/390ii.md), [irrigation water](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=5) may not be delivered to—

- (1) a [qualified recipient](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=9) for use in the irrigation of lands owned by such [qualified recipient](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=9) in excess of nine hundred and sixty acres of class I lands or the equivalent thereof; or
- (2) a [limited recipient](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=7) for the use in the irrigation of lands owned by such [limited recipient](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=7) in excess of six hundred and forty acres of class I lands or the equivalent thereof;

whether situated in one or more [districts](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 204, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1265.)