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

# §390qq. Isolated tracts


Neither the ownership limitations of this subchapter nor the ownership limitations of any other provision of Federal reclamation law shall apply to lands which are isolated tracts found by the [Secretary](/usc/43/390bb.md?p=11) to be economically farmable only if they are included in a larger farming operation but which may, as a result of their inclusion in that operation, cause it to exceed such ownership limitations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 217, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1270.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Federal reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 390aa of this title.