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state plans during any year prior to 1942 may be made at 

 any time prior to or during the year to which such plans 

 relate" for "apportionments of funds available for carry- 

 ing out the purposes specified In this section for the 

 year 1936 may be made at any time during 1936. and ap- 

 portionments for 1937 may be made at any time during 

 1937'. 



§590g-I. Allocation for county agricultural conserva- 

 tion program; amount withheld; use; deposit of 

 funds. 



CODinCATION 



Section, acts July 5, 1952. ch 574. title I. § 101. 66 Stat. 

 347; July 28. 1953. ch. 251, title I. 5 101. 67 Stat. 216. which 

 related to allocations to the Soil Conservation Service for 

 services of Its technicians In formulating and carrying out 

 the agricultural conservation program In the participating 

 counties, was apparently restricted to the appropriation 

 acts of which In each case it was n part, and has been 

 omitted from the code. 



§590g-2. Allocation for State agricultural conserva- 

 tion program; amount withheld; use. 



Not to exceed 2'/2 per centum of the allocation for 

 the agricultural conservation program for any State 

 may be utilized in determining the most needed con- 

 servation practices on Individual farms for which 

 Federal assistance shall be given. (July 5. 1952. 

 ch. 574, title I, § 101, 66 Stf.t. 347.) 



§ 590h. Payments and grrants of aid. 



(a!) Repealed. Pub. L. 87-703, title I, § 101(2), Sept. 27, 

 1962, 76 Stat. 60S. 



(b) Payments and grants of aid; local, county, State 

 committees; rules and regulations; rural environ- 

 mental protection contracts: terms and conditions, 

 period, modification or termination. 



The Secretary shall have power to carry out th^ 

 purposes specified in clauses (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), 

 and (6) of section 590g(a) of this title by making 

 payments or grants of other aid to agricultural pro- 

 ducers, including tenants and sharecroppers, in 

 amounts determined by the Secretary to be fair and 

 reasonable in connection with the effectuation of 

 such purposes during the year with respect to which 

 such payments or grants are made, and measured 

 by ( 1 ) their treatment or use of their land, or a part 

 thereof, for soil restoration, soil conservation, the 

 prevention of erosion, or the prevention or abatement 

 of agriculture-related pollution; (2) changes in the 

 use of their land: (3) their equitable share, as de- 

 termined by the Secretary, of the normal national 

 production of any commodity or commodities re- 

 quired for domestic consumption; (4) their equitable 

 share, as determined by the Secretary, of the na- 

 tional production of any commodity or commodities 

 required for domestic consumption and exports ad- 

 justed to reflect the extent to which their utilization 

 of cropland on the farm conforms to farming prac- 

 tices which the Secretary determines will best effec- 

 tuate the purposes specified in section 590f (a) of this 

 title; or (5) any combination of the above. Clauses 

 '1) and (2) above shall be construed to cover water 

 conservation and the beneficial use of water on indi- 

 vidual farms, including .measures to prevent run-off, 

 the building of check dams and ponds, and providing 

 facilities for applying water to the land. In determin- 

 ing the amount of any payment or grant measured 

 by (1) or (2) the Secretary shall take into considera- 

 tion the productivity of the land affected by the 



farming practices adopted during the year with re- 

 spect to which such payment is made. In carrying 

 out the provisions of this section in the States of the 

 Union, except Alaska, the Secretary is directed to 

 utilize the services of local and State committees 

 selected as hereinafter provided. The Secretary shall 

 designate local administrative areas as units for ad- 

 ministration of programs under this section No such 

 local area shall include more than one county or 

 parts of different counties. Farmers within any such 

 local administrative area, and participating or co- 

 operating in programs administered within such 

 area, shall elect armually from among their number 

 a local committee of not more than three members 

 for such area. The members of the local committees 

 shall, in a county convention, nominate and elect a 

 county committee which shall consist of three mem- 

 bers who are farmers in the county. At the first 

 county convention held on or after January 1, 1965, 

 one member of the county committee shall be elected 

 for one year: one member shall be elected for two 

 years: and one member shall be elected for three 

 years. Thereafter, each member of a county commit- 

 tee shall be elected for a term of three years. No 

 member of the county committee shall be elected for 

 more than three consecutive terms (exclusive of any 

 term which began prior to January 1, 1965). The 

 local committee shall select a secretary and may 

 utilize the county agricultural extension agent for 

 such purpose. The county committee shall select a 

 secretary who may be the county agricultural exten- 

 sion agent. If such county agricultural extension 

 agent shall not have been elected secretary of such 

 committee, he shall be ex officio a member of the 

 county committee. The county agricultural exten- 

 sion agent shall not have the power to vote. In any 

 county in which there is only one local committee the 

 local committee shall also be the county committee. 

 In each State there shall be a State committee for 

 the State composed of not less than three or more 

 than five farmers who are legal residents of the State 

 and who are appointed by the Secretary. The State 

 director of the Agricultural Extension Service shall 

 be ex officio a member of such State committee. The 

 ex officio members of the county and State commit- 

 tees shall be in addition to the number of members of 

 such committees hereinbefore specified. The Secre- 

 tary shall make such regulations as are necessary 

 relating to the selection and exercise of the functions 

 of the respective committees, and to the adminis- 

 tration, through such committees, of such programs. 

 In carrying out the provisions of this section, the 

 Secretary shall, as far as practicable, protect the 

 interests of tenants and sharecroppers; is author- 

 ized to utilize the agricultural extension service and 

 other approved agencies: shall accord such recogni- 

 tion and encouragement to producer-owned and 

 producer-controlled cooperative associations as will 

 be in harmony with the policy toward cooperative 

 associations set forth in existing Acts of Congress 

 and as will tend to promote efficient methods of 

 marketing and distribution: shall not have power to 

 acquire any land or any right or interest therein; 

 shall, in every practicable manner, protect the inter- 

 ests of small producers: and shall in every practical 

 way encourage and provide for soil-conserving and 

 soil-rebuilding practices rather than the growing of 



