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of one year or less without rights of renewal from the limitation and
to provide a full ten years to bring presently leased lands within com-
pliance with the acreage limitation.
 Section 8 was revised (1) to delete language restricting the Secre-
tary's-adnyiinistrative authority to deliver water to excess lands; (2)
to restrict the language exempting charitable and religious organiza-
tions from the acreage limitation to provide such exemption only so
long as the produce or proceeds of sales of produce from such lands
are directly used for charitable purposes; (3) to add language amend-
ing an existing exemption for State-owned lands leased for revenue
to remove the existing 25-year limitation on such arrangements; (4)
to add language exempting the Imperial Irrigation District of Cali-
fornia from the acreage limitation; (5) to add language clarifying
that the acreage limitation of Reclamation Law does not apply to
Corps of Engineers projects unless otherwise explicitly provided by
Federal statute; (6) to add a provision exempting lands temporarily
supplied with water in unusually wet years and exempting leases of 1
year or less for purposes of managing water in drought periods from
the acreage limitation; (7) to add a provision exempting minor tracts
of land from the acreage limitation; (8) to add a provision estab-
lishing a 10-year period during which the price of subsequent sales of
previously excess lands shall be approved by the Secretary; (9) to
add a provision requiring excess lands acquired by foreclosure or
other process of law to be furnished with a project water supply for
10 years; (10) to permit formerly excess lands which are not excess
at the time of acquisition through foreclosure or other process of law
to be sold thereafter at fair market value; (11) to add a provision ex-
empting trustees holding lands in a fiduciary capacity from the acre-
age limitation if the beneficiaries of such landholdings are in com-
pliance; and (12) to add a provision making it clear that entities
which do not meet the requirements of a "qualified recipient" under
this bill but which are currently receiving a water supply from a
Reclamation project may continue to receive such water for a land-
holding of no more than 160 acres.
 A new Section 9 was inserted extending the terms of any recordable
contracts currently in effect by the equivalent period of time of the
moratorium on voluntary land sales presently imposed by court order
and Secretarial decision.
 A new subsection was added to Section 10 (formerly Section 9) pro-
viding a procedure to validate the terms of any existing contract be-
tween the Secretary and a water-using entity relating to the acreage
limitation.
 A new subsection was added to Section 10 (formerly Section 9) to
provide that sales of excess lands sold by the Secretary under his
powers of attorney upon expiration of recordable contract terms shall
be by lottery or other impartial selection of buyers and land holdings
of varying sizes shall be offered for sale.
 A new Section 11 was added to grant permission for contracting
entities to sue the Secretary to reform contracts if the courts find that
written representations made by the Secretary or his representatives
were relied upon by contracting entities concerning the interpreta-
tion of Reclamation Law.