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[CITE: 16USC3471]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                    CHAPTER 54--RESOURCE CONSERVATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3471. Payments for land removed from production for 
        conservation purposes; authorization of appropriations
        
    (a) The Secretary of Agriculture may enter into contracts to provide 
financial assistance in the form of payments to owners and operators of 
cropland located in counties where the soil normally freezes to a depth 
of at least four inches annually who remove such land from agricultural 
production for a period not to exceed one year for the purpose of 
installing enduring conservation measures which involve excavation of 
the soil. The payments under such contracts shall be in such amounts as 
determined by the Secretary to be necessary to effectuate the purposes 
of this subchapter but shall not exceed an amount equal to the number of 
acres of cropland removed from agricultural production for such purpose 
multiplied by 50 per centum of the typical annual rent, as determined by 
the Secretary, paid for similar land in the county. Financial assistance 
may not be provided under this section with respect to any conservation 
measure without the approval of the soil and water conservation district 
board for the district in which the land is located, and may not, in the 
aggregate, be provided in any year with respect to more than one-half of 
1 per centum of the cropland in any county.
    (b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, such sums to 
remain available until expended.

(Pub. L. 97-98, title XV, Sec. 1552, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1344.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original 
``this subtitle'', meaning subtitle J (Secs. 1550-1554) of title XV of 
Pub. L. 97-98, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1344, which enacted this 
subchapter and section 2273 of Title 7, Agriculture, and amended section 
1236 of Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining. For complete classification 
of subtitle J to the Code, see Tables.
