Part 510 - General Operating Procedures 

 510.44(a) (3) 



(3) In those cases where SCS is working with clients who have 

 difficulty understanding written materials, SCS will make a reasonable 

 effort to ensure that the person clearly understands what is expected 

 so that the status review can be made on the basis of the person's 

 full understanding of what is needed to meet active application 

 requirements. 



(b) Policy. Beginning with the 1990 calendar year, the district 

 conservationist (DC) is responsible for making an annual status review 

 of 5 percent of all tracts that have HEL and an approved conservation 

 plan. The purpose of the status review is to determine whether or not 

 persons are applying and maintaining conservation practices as 

 specified in their approved conservation plan. Additionally, status 

 reviews provide feedback to USDA agencies and the conservation 

 district which helps evaluate whether the conservation objectives of 

 FSA are being achieved. This status review policy is applicable to 

 FSA conservation compliance plans only. However, conservation 

 compliance plans may include fields that were initially planned under 

 the sodbuster provision, and these fields will be included in the 

 status review for the tracts selected. 



(c) Selection of tr acts for status review . Procedures for 

 selecting tracts for the status review are as follows: 



(1) By January 15 of each year, the DC will prepare a 

 sequential listing, by tract number, of all the tracts with approved 

 FSA conservation compliance plans for each county served by the field 

 office. This list will then be numbered 1 through N. N will equal 

 the total number of tracts with FSA conservation compliance plans. 

 The list will be retained as part of the docximentation of the status 

 review. Exceptions can be made to the use of tracts for the status 

 review list if ASCS has not established tract numbers. 



(2) By February 1 of each year, the DC will select the 

 specific tracts for which status reviews are to be made. Persons 

 owning and/or operating the selected tracts will not be notified of 

 the selection until an appointment is made for the status review. 

 This selection is a 5 percent random sample from the list developed in 

 §510.44(0) (1) , using the national random number set developed 

 specifically for each calendar year. The national random number set 

 will be sent by NHQ to each state by January 15 of each year. SCS 

 will ensure that at least 5 percent of FmHA borrowers tracts are 

 selected for a status review. 



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



