511.50(c) 



(c) Plan revision and transfe r exceptions . An approved ! 

 conservation plan may be revised to add HEL compliance acreage or the 

 plan may be transferred to a new owner/ operator, thereby retaining 



the December 30, 1994, practice application date in the following ^ 

 situations: 



(1) A USDA participant who was not required to have an 

 approved conservation plan by January 1, 1990, purchases, leases, 

 rents, or sharecrops HEL compliance land after, January 1, 1990. 

 Such a participant may adopt the previous operator's approved plan by 

 agreeing to continue practice application as scheduled. In this case 

 SCS will transfer the original plan to the participant by changing 

 the operator I.D. and requiring the participemt to sign a new 

 certification statement: "(I) (we) agree to adopt this approved plan 

 and to continue practice application as scheduled." If necessary, an 

 adopted conservation plan may be revised for future years svibject to 

 availeibility of SCS resources and the practiceibility of achieving a 

 fully applied conservation system by December 30, 1994. 



(2) A USDA participant who has an approved conservation 

 plan purchases, leases, rents or sharecrops additional HEL compliance 

 land after January 1, 1990. Such a participant may adopt a previous 

 participant's plan as specified in (c) (1) above or may revise the 

 original plan to include the additional acreage. This decision 

 should be based on whether a new tract is added or whether two or 

 more tracts are merged into one unit. If the participamt opts to 

 revise the original plan, the revision must be approved before an 

 agricultural crop is planted on the newly acquired HEL. 



(d) Procedures . SCS will use a Form SCS-CPA-027 to individually 

 identify plans approved after January 1, 1990, so that ASCS will know 

 when a conservation plan has been developed and approved for the 

 tract. 



(e) The situation with regard to sodbusting will not change, so 

 that a person who: 



(1) has not produced an agricultural commodity on a HEL 

 field during the period 1981-85, and 



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