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[CITE: 16USC3839aa-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
 CHAPTER 58--ERODIBLE LAND AND WETLAND CONSERVATION AND RESERVE PROGRAM
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION PROGRAM
 
            Part IV--Environmental Quality Incentives Program
 
Sec. 3839aa-1. Definitions

    In this part:

                          (1) Eligible land

        The term ``eligible land'' means agricultural land (including 
    cropland, rangeland, pasture, and other land on which crops or 
    livestock are produced), including agricultural land that the 
    Secretary determines poses a serious threat to soil, water, or 
    related resources by reason of the soil types, terrain, climatic, 
    soil, topographic, flood, or saline characteristics, or other 
    factors or natural hazards.

                    (2) Land management practice

        The term ``land management practice'' means a site-specific 
    nutrient or manure management, integrated pest management, 
    irrigation management, tillage or residue management, grazing 
    management, or other land management practice carried out on 
    eligible land that the Secretary determines is needed to protect, in 
    the most cost-effective manner, water, soil, or related resources 
    from degradation.

                            (3) Livestock

        The term ``livestock'' means dairy cattle, beef cattle, laying 
    hens, broilers, turkeys, swine, sheep, and such other animals as 
    determined by the Secretary.

                            (4) Producer

        The term ``producer'' means a person who is engaged in livestock 
    or agricultural production (as defined by the Secretary).

                       (5) Structural practice

        The term ``structural practice'' means--
            (A) the establishment on eligible land of a site-specific 
        animal waste management facility, terrace, grassed waterway, 
        contour grass strip, filterstrip, tailwater pit, permanent 
        wildlife habitat, or other structural practice that the 
        Secretary determines is needed to protect, in the most cost-
        effective manner, water, soil, or related resources from 
        degradation; and
            (B) the capping of abandoned wells on eligible land.

(Pub. L. 99-198, title XII, Sec. 1240A, as added Pub. L. 104-127, title 
III, Sec. 334, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 997.)
