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Show 325 watering purposes" shall not be reserved but held open for public use.43 Furthermore, the Secretary of the Interior may- withdraw from entry lands necessary to insure access by the public to reserved "watering places needed for use in the move- ment of stock."44 An earlier statute provides that any person, livestock company, or transportation corporation engaged in breeding, grazing, driving, or transporting livestock may con- struct "reservoirs upon unoccupied public lands" of the United States, not mineral or otherwise reserved, for the purpose of "furnishing water to such livestock," provided that such reser- voir shall not be fenced and shall be open to the "free use of any person desiring to water animals of any kind." *" Special Provisions in Arid and Semiarid Areas.-A de- clared purpose of Congress under the 1937 Water Facilities Act is "to assist in providing facilities for water storage and utiliza- tion in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States."46 Congress announced this purpose in express recognition of the wastage and inadequate utilization of water resources on farm, grazing, and forest lands in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States resulting from inadequate facilities for storage and use. To effectuate this policy, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to formulate and keep current a program of proj- ects for the construction and maintenance in those areas of "ponds, reservoirs, wells, check-dams, pumping installations, and other facilities for water storage and utilization, together with appurtenances to such facilities."4T Also noteworthy here is the authority vested in the Secre- tary of the Interior to construct "water conservation and utili- zation projects in the Great Plains and arid and semiarid areas of the United States," for the declared purpose of "stabilizing water supply and thereby rehabilitating farmers on the'land 48 Act of December 29,1916, § 10, 39 Stat. 862, 865, as amended, 43 U. S. C. 300. "Id. 48 Act of January 13, 1897, § 1, 29 Stat. 484, as amended, 43 U. S. C. 952. 48 Act of August 28, 1937, § 1, 50 Stat. 869, 16 U. S. 0. 590r. 47 § 2, 50 Stat. 869,16 U. S. O. 590s. |