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

# §390nn. Trusts

- (a) The ownership and [full cost](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=3-A) pricing limitations of this subchapter and the ownership limitations provided in any other provision of Federal reclamation law shall not apply to lands in a [district](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=2) which are held by an [individual](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=4) or corporate trustee in a fiduciary capacity for a beneficiary or beneficiaries whose interests in the lands served do not exceed the ownership and pricing limitations imposed by Federal reclamation law, including this subchapter.
- (b) Lands placed in a revocable trust shall be attributable to the grantor if—
  - (1) the trust is revocable at the discretion of the grantor and revocation results in the title to such lands reverting either directly or indirectly to the grantor; or
  - (2) the trust is revoked or terminated by its terms upon the expiration of a specified period of time and the revocation or termination results in the title to such lands reverting either directly or indirectly to the grantor.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 214, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1270; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5302(b), Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–269.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Federal reclamation law, referred to in subsec. (a), is defined in section 390aa of this title.

### Amendments

1987—Pub. L. 100–203 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).