511.46(d) 

 <511.45 Technical assistance. 



Upon the request of a landowner or operator who crops or plans 

 to crop highly erodible fields, SCS will provide technical assistance 

 for purposes of developing a conservation plan and applying a 

 conservation system. Technical assistance should be provided to the 

 landowner whenever possible to ensxire continuity of the conservation 

 plem. As the first step in responding to a request for a 

 conservation plan, SCS will review any existing conservation plans in 

 the case file for the tract, and utilize the existing conservation 

 plan to the extent possible. Persons who have requested technical 

 assistance, but are unwilling or unzible to develop conservation plans 

 at the time that SCS is able to provide technical assistemce will be 

 provided with one or more alternatives for accepteible conservation 

 systems for the person's highly erodible fields at the time SCS 

 provides technical assistance. 



{511.46 Active application of a conservation plan. 



(a) Active application of a conservation plan means: 



(1) The conservation practices and treatments described in 

 the approved conservation plan are being applied in each HEL cropland 

 field according to the schedule specified in the plan, and 



(2) All applied practices are properly operated and 

 maintained. 



(b) certification of act ive application. After January 1, 

 1990, when applying for benefits, the landowner or responsible person 

 will annually certify to ASCS on Form AD-1026 that the approved 

 conservation plan is being actively applied and/or an approved 

 conservation system is being used. SCS personnel will conduct status 

 reviews each year on 5 percent of the tracts with conservation plans 

 to determine active application. 



(c) Using the conservation system means that all plzmned 

 structural, supporting, and mzmagement practices and treatments are 

 installed, operated, emd maintained in accordance with the FOTG, and 

 that the approved crop rotation is being used in each HEL cropland 

 field. 



(d) Crop rotations . A crop rotation is considered as being 

 used each year that the crops (or approved substitute crops) 

 specified in the approved conservation plan are grown in the planned 

 sequence with the needed tillage and residue mamagement practices to 

 achieve the required USLE "C" factor and/ or WEQ "V" factor. 



511-17 

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



