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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 8A — Rubber and Other Critical Agricultural Materials

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

Statutory text

Subject to conditions prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, any part of the land acquired by lease, deed, or other agreement pursuant to sections 171 to 173 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.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 77–476 · 56 Stat. 593

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 175

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

    Source evidence

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

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Credits

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

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