EZ Report of Individual's Landholdings

FORM 7-2190EZ
2008 Instructions

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

(7-07)

Bureau of Reclamation
Do not use this form after December 31, 2008

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, U.S. 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:

(2)

All your landholdings subject to acreage
limitation provisions are located in the same
district.

(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.

• “Land” or “acres” means irrigable and/or irrigation land.
• “You” or “your” means the landholder.

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.

• “We,” “us,” “our,” or “Reclamation” means the Bureau
of Reclamation.
Visit www.usbr.gov/rra for more information.

WHO MAY SUBMIT THIS FORM

WHERE TO SUBMIT FORMS

You may submit an “EZ Report of Individual’s
Landholdings” (Form 7-2190EZ) if you meet all of the
following conditions:
(1)

Submit this form to the district in which the land is located.

WHAT LAND TO INCLUDE

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.

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.

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acceptable in place of a residential address.
Post office box numbers may be used only if no
other address exists.

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
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.

ANNUAL REPORTING

6.

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.

7.

ITEM BY ITEM INSTRUCTIONS
Landholder Information

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.)

(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)

(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.

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.

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.

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.

Enter your name.

Enter your mailing address if it is different from
your residential address.

Land You Own

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1.

(b)

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:
(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)

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.

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

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FORM 7-2190EZ (2008)

(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.

(f)

8.

Land You Lease From Another Party
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.

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

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:

(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.

(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.

12.

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

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.

Signatures

Legal description of the land parcel or an
assessor’s parcel number.

14.
(b)

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.

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.

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.

(a)

(c)

Who primarily operates the land: you (self) or
another party (other).

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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.

FORM 7-2190EZ (2008)