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

# §390gg. Equivalency


Upon the request of any [district](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=2), the ownership and pricing limitations imposed by this subchapter shall apply to the irrigable lands classified within such [district](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=2) by the [Secretary](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=11) as having class I productive potential or the equivalent thereof in larger acreage of less productive potential, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=11), taking into account all factors which significantly affect productivity, including but not limited to topography, soil characteristics, length of growing season, elevation, adequacy of water supply, and crop adaptability.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 207, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1266.)