---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 625"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "625"
heading: "Release of unentered land from lien on noncompletion of irrigation project"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/625"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Federal Lands Included in State Irrigation Districts"
---

# §625. Release of unentered land from lien on noncompletion of irrigation project


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior may, upon the expiration of ten years from the date of his approval of said map and plan of any irrigation district, release from the lien authorized by this chapter any unentered land or lands upon which final certificate has not issued, for which irrigation works have not been constructed and water of such district made available for the land.


## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 3, 39 Stat. 508.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of the first proviso in section 3 of act Aug. 11, 1916. The remainder of section 3 is classified to section 623 of this title.