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Subpart C - FSA Administration 



Subpart C - FSA Administration 



SUBPART C - FSA ADMINISTRATION 



510.20(f) 



510.20 Agricultural stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) . 



Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) has 

 primary responsibility through State Committees and County Office 

 Committees for administering the following FSA provisions. 



(a) Establish field boundaries. 



(b) Determine whether a person is a producer on a HEL field or 

 converted wetland. 



(c) Determine whether in any year 1981 through 1985 the land 

 was: 



(1) Designated as Agricultural Conservation Reserve (ACR) 

 or Conservation Use (CU) 



(2) Not cultivated under a program to reduce production of 

 an agricultural commodity. 



(d) Determine whether a tenant or sharecropper is required 



to produce an agricultural commodity on HEL converted wetland under 

 the terms and conditions of an agreement between the lamdlord and the 

 tenant or sharecropper. 



(e) Determine when a tenant is eligible for the tenamt 

 restrictions provision. Tenants who produce agricultural commodities 

 on land owned by others will not be subject to loss of all USDA 

 benefits if they made a good faith effort, but are prevented from 

 actively applying the approved conservation plan by the actions or 

 inactions of the owner of a tract, and the lack of compliance is not z 

 part of a scheme or device to avoid compliance. The ten8mt will be 

 subject to loss of benefits only on the tract (s) on which the tenamt 

 was prevented by the owner from actively applying the approved 

 conservation plan, and will continue to be eligible for USDA benefits 

 on all other tracts on which the tenant actively applies the approved 

 conservation plan. 



(f) Determine whether an agricultural commodity was planted on 

 HEL before December 23, 1985. 



510-9 

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



