---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 451j"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "451j"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/451j"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter VII — Exchange and Amendment of Farm Units"
---

# §451j. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) may perform any and all acts and make all rules and regulations necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 12, 67 Stat. 568.)