43 U.S.C. § 623 : US Code - Section 623: Map of district and plan of irrigation project; approval by Secretary

Search 43 U.S.C. § 623 : US Code - Section 623: Map of district and plan of irrigation project; approval by Secretary

No unentered lands and no entered lands for which no final
certificates have been issued shall be subject to the lien or liens
herein contemplated until there shall have been submitted by said
irrigation district to the Secretary of the Interior, and approved
by him, a map or plat of said district and sufficient detailed
engineering data to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the
Secretary of the Interior the sufficiency of the water supply and
the feasibility of the project, and which shall explain the plan or
mode of irrigation in those irrigation districts where the
irrigation works have not been constructed, and which plan shall be
sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and prepare
it to raise ordinary agricultural crops, and which shall also show
the source of water to be used for irrigation of land included in
said district: Provided, That in those irrigation districts
organized prior to August 11, 1916, and whose irrigation works had
then been constructed and were then in operation as soon as a
satisfactory map, plat, and plan shall have been approved by the
Secretary of the Interior, as in this chapter provided, such
entered and unentered lands shall be subject to all district taxes
and assessments theretofore actually levied against the lands in
said district and in the same manner in which lands of a like
character held under private ownership are subject to liens and
assessments.