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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is hereby authorized, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, to exclude from the lands in the South Coast and the Isabela Irrigation Districts such parcels of land or portions thereof as to which any of the following circumstances attend:(a) When such parcels of land or portions thereof have been acquired by the United States of America or by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the agencies or instrumentalities thereof to be devoted to public purposes which do not require irrigation;(b) when, by reason of acquisition by the United States of America or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the agencies or instrumentalities thereof, of parcels of land or portions thereof or canal systems in the South Coast and the Isabela Irrigation Districts, the parcels of land to be excluded are not susceptible of irrigation, and(c) when it has not been or is not possible to supply water to such parcels of land or portions thereof because the canal systems to them have not been constructed. Should such canals be in future constructed, the Authority may reintegrate these parcels into the corresponding Irrigation District.

ereof because the canal systems to them have not been constructed. Should such canals be in future constructed, the Authority may reintegrate these parcels into the corresponding Irrigation District. History —June 13, 1957, No. 44, p. 100.