---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 425b"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "425b"
heading: "Receipt of project water by lessees of irrigable lands owned by States, etc.; time limitation; applicability of acreage limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/425b"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter V — Administration of Existing Projects"
---

# §425b. Receipt of project water by lessees of irrigable lands owned by States, etc.; time limitation; applicability of acreage limitations


Lessees of irrigable lands owned by [States](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), political subdivisions, and agencies thereof which are held to be subject to the acreage limitation provisions of Federal reclamation law and for which recordable contracts to sell have not been made may receive project water from July 7, 1970, subject to the same acreage limitation provisions of Federal reclamation law as private landowners.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–310, § 3, July 7, 1970, 84 Stat. 411; Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 224(d), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1272.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Federal reclamation law, referred to in text, probably means act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto. See section 425 of this title. Act June 17, 1902, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of act June 17, 1902, to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1982—Pub. L. 97–293 struck out “for a period not to exceed twenty-five years” after “may receive project water”.