368a

There may be included in the Trial-Basis District and later in the Permanent Irrigation District established by this subchapter, tracts of lands or parts thereof so located as to be susceptible of irrigation by the hoisting of water through pumping, provided that:(1) The owners of said tracts request their inclusion in the District;(2) said owners build the necessary works for the hoisting of the water to irrigate said tracts through pumping, and take charge of the operation and maintenance thereof, and(3) the lands to be included qualify therefor, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, after said officer has ascertained that through irrigation by pumping said lands will derive a benefit greater than the total cost or charge which this subchapter imposes on the lands to be irrigated by pumping. History —June 10, 1953, No. 65, p. 182, added as § 8A on June 14, 1961, No. 55, p. 97, eff. July 1, 1961.