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Subpart B - General Provisions 



510.14(a)(3) 



(1) Persons must apply an approved conservation system on 

 all highly erodible land used to produce an agricultural commodity. 



(i) Highly erodible lands broken out for the production 

 of an agricultural commodity must have an approved conservation system 

 fully in use the first crop year planted after June 27, 1986, except 

 for alfalfa in a crop rotation. (See 511.03, 511.04, and 511.05) 



(ii) For highly erodible crop fields that were planted 

 to an agricultural commodity during any of the 1981-1985 crop years, 

 persons must have developed an approved conservation plan by January 

 1, 1990, and have the plan fully applied by January 1, 1995, except 

 where no soil survey is available to identify highly erodible land. 

 In such cases, persons have 2 years after a soil survey is completed 

 on the highly erodible cropland to develop a conservation plan. 



(2) Persons must not plant an agricultural commodity on 

 wetlands that were converted after December 23, 1985, unless the 

 wetland was exempt. 



(b) FACTA . Summary of the Requirements of the Conservation 

 Provisions of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act 

 (FACTA) of 1990. 



(1) The 1990 FACTA amended the 1985 FSA and changed the 

 criteria under the wetland conservation provision to include 

 restrictions on persons who participate in certain USDA programs for 

 any conversion of wetland after November 28, 1990. 



(2) Persons must not plant an agricultural commodity on 

 wetlands which were converted between December 23, 1985, and 

 November 28, 1990, unless the wetland was exempt. Persons who convert 

 a wetland after November 28, 1990 will be ineligible for USDA program 

 benefits until the converted wetland is restored, unless the activity 

 is exempt under the wetland conservation provisions of the 1990 FACTA. 



510.14 Denial of program benefits. 



(a) Persons who do not comply with the above requirements are 

 denied benefits in the following USDA programs: 



(1) Commodity Loans and Purchases — 10.051 (ASCS) 



(2) Cotton Production Stabilization — 10.052 (ASCS) 



(3) Emergency Conservation Program — 10.054 (ASCS) 



510(a) (4) 



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(180-V-NFSAM, Second Ed., Amend. 6, May 1991) 



