EZ Report of Individual's Landholdings

FORM 7-2190EZ
2012 Instructions

INSTRUCTIONS FOR “EZ” REPORT OF
INDIVIDUAL’S LANDHOLDINGS
(Prior Law Provisions)

(7-11)

Bureau of Reclamation
Do not use this form after December 31, 2012

OMB Control No.: 1006-0005

Paperwork Reduction Act
This information is being collected to establish landholder compliance with Federal reclamation law. Response to this request is mandatory
in accordance with Public Law 97-293 and 43 CFR 426.18. Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 45 minutes per
response, including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. An agency may
not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) control number. Direct comments regarding the burden estimated or any other aspect of these forms to
Manager, Land Resources Office, Code 84-53000, Bureau of Reclamation, PO Box 25007, Denver CO 80225.

GENERAL INFORMATION
“General Information About RRA Forms” (Form 7-21INFO),
provides basic instructions on using Reclamation Reform Act
of 1982 (RRA) forms. Ask your district office for this form
each year to keep current. Refer to the definitions at the end of
Form 7-21INFO whenever the meaning of a term is not clear
to you. Please note, some terms such as “irrigable land,”
“irrigation land,” and “irrigation water” have special
definitions when used in these forms which differ from their
common meaning. Other terms and corresponding definitions
that are specific to the RRA forms are:
•

“Land” or “acres” means irrigable and/or irrigation land.

•

“You” or “your” means the landholder.

•

“We,” “us,” “our,” or “Reclamation” means the Bureau
of Reclamation.

(3) You do not hold more than 160 acres of irrigable
and/or irrigation land (320 acres for a married couple
if each spouse holds an equal interest).
(4) You hold all your land directly and in your own name
(that is, the land is not owned or leased through any
type of legal entity, such as a corporation, trust,
estate, or partnership; or in the names of your
children or other dependents).
(5) You are not claimed as a dependent under the
Internal Revenue Code.
If you do not meet all of these criteria, you must submit a
“Report of Individual’s Landholdings” (Form 7-2190).
Fact Sheets 1, 2, and 9 are available at your district office if
you are unsure whether Form 7-2190EZ is the appropriate
form for you to submit.
WHERE TO SUBMIT FORMS

Visit www.usbr.gov/rra for more information.
Submit this form to the district in which the land is located.
WHO MAY SUBMIT THIS FORM
WHAT LAND TO INCLUDE
You may submit an “EZ Report of Individual’s Landholdings”
(Form 7-2190EZ) if you meet all of the following conditions:
(1) You are an individual, an individual with dependent
children, a married couple, or a married couple with
dependent children, and you are subject to the
acreage limitation provisions of prior law whose total
westwide landholdings are more than 40 acres.
(2) All your landholdings subject to acreage limitation
provisions are located in the same district.

You must report all of your land held in this district that is
subject to the acreage limitation provisions. You must provide
an accurate legal description or an assessor’s parcel number
for each land parcel. Be sure to break down land parcels as far
as necessary to ensure accurate identification.
IF LANDHOLDINGS CHANGE
You must notify the district in which you hold land within
30 calendar days if your landholdings change during the water
year, and you must submit new reporting forms within
60 calendar days of the change. These 30- and 60-day grace
periods do not apply to a new landholder. A new landholder

(b) Enter your mailing address if it is different from your
residential address.

must submit forms prior to receiving Reclamation irrigation
water.
5.

For more information on landholding changes, see
Fact Sheet 11, which is available at your district office.

(a) Enter the telephone number where questions can be
directed.
(b) Enter the name of a contact person at that telephone
number if you are not the person to whom we should
direct our questions.

ANNUAL REPORTING
You must submit Form 7-2190EZ or Form 7-2190 each and
every year prior to the delivery of Reclamation irrigation water
to your land if your landholdings exceed the RRA forms
submittal threshold. However, you may submit a “Verification
of Landholdings” (Form 7-21VERIFY) instead if your
landholdings have not changed since the last standard
reporting form you submitted.

6.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Check the box(es) to indicate if you or your spouse, if
married, are U.S. citizens, resident aliens, or
nonresident aliens. Please indicate your country of
citizenship if you check “nonresident alien.”
Nonresident aliens will be required to submit proof of
citizenship if they irrevocably elect to conform to the
discretionary provisions.

Type or print in ink all answers. You must initial and date any
crossouts and corrections. You may attach continuation sheets
to list information. Preprinted continuation sheets are
available for this purpose, or you may make your own.
Please contact your district office or the appropriate
Reclamation office if you have any questions.

Land You Own

ITEM BY ITEM INSTRUCTIONS

7.

It is the responsibility of landowners, sellers of land, and
districts to notify lessees, buyers of land, and new landholders,
respectively, of the RRA forms submittal requirements
associated with the land in question.

Landholder Information
1.

Enter your name.

2.

(a) Enter your marital status (single, married, divorced,
or widowed). (Note: This information is requested
because some entitlements are based on whether you
are single, married, or widowed.)

(a) Provide an accurate legal description of the land
parcel or an assessor’s parcel number. For each
lessee, sublessee, or operator entered in item 7(c) [or
for yourself if you check “self” in item 7(b)], there is
space to list four land parcels (one parcel per line) if
all parcels are operated by the same natural person or
entity in the same district. You may list more than
one parcel per line if all parcels have the same lease
information.

(b) If you responded “single,” “married,” or “divorced”
to item 2(a), skip to item 3. However, if you
responded “widowed” to item 2(a) indicate whether
as a surviving spouse you were left with more than
160 acres of land that is eligible to receive
Reclamation irrigation water until the land is sold.
(c) Number of acres you and your spouse held prior to
the death of your spouse.
3.

Enter your spouse's name, if married.

4.

(a) Enter your residential address. You must use the
street address or rural route number, city, state, and
ZIP code. Your attorney's address, relative's address,
“c/o” address, etc., is not acceptable in place of a
residential address. Post office box numbers may be
used only if no other address exists.

This section requests information regarding land that you
directly own. Include land leased from a public entity
here instead of including it as leased land in item 10
because it counts against the lessee's ownership
entitlement (pursuant to Public Law 91-310). In that
situation, write the land is leased from a public entity and
include the name of the public entity after the legal
description of the land parcel. Enter the following for
each land parcel:

(b) Who primarily operates the land parcel: you (self);
a lessee or sublessee under a lease (lessee/sublessee);
or an operator under any other type of farm operating
arrangement (other).
(c) Name, address, and telephone number of each lessee,
sublessee, or other type of operator. Skip this column
and go to item 7(f) if you are the primary operator of
the land parcel.
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(d) Starting date of the lease. This is the date the lease
first became effective. Enter the date the lease was
signed if no effective date was specified in the lease.
Remember, leases cannot exceed 10 years except
with our approval for perennial crops, which are
determined on a crop-by-crop basis but cannot
exceed 25 years.

(d) Starting date of the lease. This is the date the lease
first became effective. Enter the date the lease was
signed if no effective date was specified in the lease.
Remember, leases cannot exceed 10 years except
with our approval for perennial crops, which are
determined on a crop-by-crop basis but cannot
exceed 25 years.

(e) Ending date of the lease. This is the date on which
the current lease will terminate, including all
exercisable options.

(e) Ending date of the lease. This is the date on which
the current lease will terminate, including all
exercisable options.

(f) Number of acres in the land parcel. If you lease land
from a public entity and then sublease it to another
landholder, do not list those acres in this column
because they are attributed to the sublessee.

(f) Number of acres in the land parcel. Do not list acres
for land that you sublease to others in this column
because they are attributed to the sublessee.
11. Total column 10(f). This is the total number of acres you
directly lease (and sublease). Include in this total any
directly leased (and subleased) acres listed on
continuation sheets or attachments.

Total column 7(f). This is the number of acres that you
directly own. Include in this total any directly owned
acres listed on continuation sheets or attachments.

Land You Lease From Another Party

12. Total item 8 and item 11. This is the total number of
acres you own and lease.

Landholders that lease land to or from other landholders should
inform the lessees and lessors of their obligation to also submit
RRA forms. If either the lessee or lessor fails to submit
RRA forms, the eligibility of the land to receive Reclamation
irrigation water will be jeopardized.
9.

Basis for Eligibility for Prior Law Provision
Entitlements
13. Check the box next to any statement that applies to you.
You may check more than one box. Please contact your
district office if you do not know which statement applies
to you.

Enter your name again. (These forms are often
photocopied, so it is necessary to have the landholder
identified on each page.)

Signatures
10. This section requests information regarding land that you
directly lease from another party. Do not include land
leased from a public entity here; instead, include it in
item 7. Include information regarding any land you
sublease to others here. Enter the following for each land
parcel:

14. Read the attestation statements carefully and sign and date
the form in ink. The statements concerning the reporting
of changes in information, written leases, the terms of
such leases, and holdings of your spouse, if married, are
requirements of Federal reclamation law. Both you and
your spouse, if married, must sign the form. This
requirement applies even if the land is not jointly held.
However, you may use a written signature authorization to
permit one spouse to sign for the couple. The district
office must keep any such spousal signature authorizations
on file.

(a) Legal description of the land parcel or an assessor’s
parcel number.
(b) Who primarily operates the land: you (self) or
another party (other).
(c) Natural person or entity that directly owns the land
that you lease. Enter the sublessee’s name as well as
the landowner’s name if you sublease the land to
another landholder. If you sublease the land from
another landholder, enter the sublessor’s name and
the landowner’s name. Include the farm operator’s
name if the land is operated by a farm operator.

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