---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 175"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "175"
heading: "Lease or sublease of unsuitable lands; disposal of water supply"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/175"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Rubber and Other Critical Agricultural Materials"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §175. Lease or sublease of unsuitable lands; disposal of water supply


Subject to conditions prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture, any part of the land acquired by lease, deed, or other agreement pursuant to sections [171](/usc/7/171.md) to [173](/usc/7/173.md) of this title, which is not required or suitable for the purposes of said sections may be leased or subleased at a reasonable rental during the period the United States is entitled to possession thereof; and any surplus water supplies controlled by the United States on such land may be disposed of at reasonable rates.


## Source credit

(July 2, 1942, ch. 476, title I, 56 Stat. 597.)