Part 510 - General Operating Procedures 



510.48(c) (2) (ii) r'^ 



(ii) Where highly erodible cropland fields are currently 

 being cropped, seed these fields to permanent vegetation, and maintain 

 this cover to provide protection from erosion. 



(iii) Where it is necessary to produce crops on highly 

 erodible croplzmd fields, require that this land be cropped according 

 to an approved conservation system. 



(3) Decisionmakers for FmHA inventory properties. 



(i) On FmHA inventory property that will not be sold or 

 leased during the current year, the decisionmaker is the FmHA county 

 supervisor. 



(ii) On FmHA inventory farms that are or will be leased, 

 the decisionmaker is FmHA and the lessee jointly. 



(iii) On FmHA inventory farms that are sold, the 

 decisionmaker is the new owner. 



(d) FmHA borrowers* farms . The following guidelines apply to 

 FmHA borrowers' farms: 



(1) HEL and ^wetland determinations on FmHA borrowers' lemds ^ 

 are to be made according to §510. 48(c) (1) . 



(2) If there is insufficient time to develop a conservation 

 plan for the highly erodible cropland, SCS will provide information to 

 the FmHA Coiinty Supervisor that will indicate whether the 

 implementation of the anticipated conservation plan will be low-, 

 medium-, or high-cost relative to other conservation plans in the 

 county. (See FmHA AN No. 1689, dated December 10, 1987.) The 

 conservation plan will become part of the terms of FmHA long-term 

 loan(s). 



(e) HEL and wetland determinations. 



(1) When Form AD-1026 contains a "yes" answer to one or more 

 determination questions, SCS will make an HEL and a wetlemd 

 determination for those fields indicated by an "X". If SCS has 

 previously completed a determination for a field, SCS will not make 

 another determination for the scune field unless there is evidence that 

 the conditions on which the original determination was based have 

 changed. 



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



