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[CITE: 42USC3272]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
   CHAPTER 40--SOIL INFORMATION ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND 
                          RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 3272. Cooperative assistance to State and other public 
        agencies; types of assistance; private engineering services
        
    In order to provide soil surveys to assist States, their political 
subdivisions, soil and water conservation districts, towns, cities, 
planning boards and commissions, community development districts, and 
other public agencies in community planning and resource development for 
the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment, 
recreational development, the conservation of land and water resources, 
the development of multiple uses of such resources, and the control and 
prevention of pollution from sediment and other pollutants in areas of 
rapidly changing uses, including farm and nonfarm areas, the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall, upon the request of a State or other public 
agency, provide by means of such cooperative arrangements with the State 
or other public agency as he may deem advisable, the following 
assistance with respect to such areas and purposes:
        (1) the making of studies and reports necessary for the 
    classification and interpretation of kinds of soil;
        (2) an intensification of the use and benefits of the National 
    Cooperative Soil Survey;
        (3) the furnishing of technical and other assistance needed for 
    use of soil surveys; and
        (4) consultation with other Federal agencies participating or 
    assisting in the planning and development of such areas in order to 
    assure the coordination of the work under this chapter with the 
    related work of such other agencies.

    The provision by the Secretary of such assistance shall not 
interfere with the furnishing of engineering services by private 
engineering firms or consultants for on-site sampling and testing of 
sites or for design and construction of specific engineering works.

(Pub. L. 89-560, Sec. 2, Sept. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 706.)
