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[CITE: 16USC3453]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                    CHAPTER 54--RESOURCE CONSERVATION
 
        SUBCHAPTER IV--RESERVOIR SEDIMENTATION REDUCTION PROGRAM
 
Sec. 3453. Establishment and scope

    The Secretary shall establish a resource conservation and 
development program under which the Secretary shall make available to 
States, local units of government, and local nonprofit organizations the 
technical and financial assistance necessary to permit such States, 
local units of government, and local nonprofit organizations to operate 
and maintain a planning and implementation process needed to conserve 
and improve the use of land, develop natural resources, and improve and 
enhance the social, economic, and environmental conditions in rural 
areas of the United States.

(Pub. L. 97-98, title XV, Sec. 1530, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1339.)
