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to Federal, State, county, or municipal agencies re- 

 questing such reproductions ijuly 22. 1942. ch. 516, 

 ; 1. 56 Stat. 691.) 



§590i-2. Furnishing photographs, mosaics, and maps 

 required in spil conservation operations of De- 

 partment of the Interior. 



Reproductions of such aerial or other photographs, 

 mosaics, and maps as shall be required In connec- 

 tion with the authorized soil and moisture conserva- 

 tion operations of the Department of the Interior 

 may be furnished to cooperating persons or agencies 

 and to Government agencies at the estimated cost 

 of furnishing such reproductions, and to other ppr- 

 sons or agencies at such prices (not less than esti- 

 mated cost of furnishing such reproductions) as the 

 Secretary may determine, the money received from 

 such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the 

 credit of this appropriation. (July 2, 1942, ch, 473, 

 § 1.56 Stat. 508.) 



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§S90o. Appropriations for purposes of sections 590g 

 and 5it0h; allocation of funds among commodities. 



To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out 

 the purposes of sections 590g and 590h of this title 

 there is authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal 

 year not exceeding $500,000,000. 



The funds available for payments (after allowing 

 for estimated administrative expenses, and not to 

 exceed 5 per centum for payments with respect to 

 range lands, noncrop pasture lands, and naval stores) 

 shall be allocated among the commodities produced 

 with respect to which payments or grants are to be 

 computed. In allocating funds among the commod- 

 ities the Secretary shall take into consideration and 

 give equal weight to ( 1 ) the average acreages planted 

 to the various commodities (including rotation pas- 

 ture), for the ten years 1928 to 1937, adjusted for 

 abnormal weather and other conditions, including 

 acreage diverted from production under the agricul- 

 tural adjustment and soil conservation programs: 



(2) the value at parity prices of the production from 

 the allotted acreages of the various commodities for 

 the year with respect to which the payment is made: 



(3) the average acreage planted to the various com- 

 modities during the ten years 1928 to^937, including 

 the acreage diverted from production under the agri- 

 cultural adjustment and soil conservation programs, 

 in excess of the allotted acreage for the year with 

 respect to which the payment is made; and (4) the 

 value based on average prices for the preceding ten 

 years of the production of the excess acreage deter- 

 mined under item (3) . The rate of payment used in 

 making payments to the producers of each commod- 

 ity shall \}e such that the estimated payments with 

 respect to such commodity shall equal the amount of 

 funds allocated to such commodity as herein pro- 

 vided. For the purpose of allocating funds and com- 

 puting payments or grants the Secretary is authorized 

 to consider as a commodity a group of commodities 

 or a regional or market classification of a commodity. 

 For the purpose of computing payments or grants, 

 the Secretary is authorized to use funds allocated to 

 two or more commodities produced on farms of a 

 designated regional or other classification to com- 



pute payments with respect to one of such commod- 

 ities on such farms, and to use funds, in an amount 

 equal to the estimated payments which would be 

 made in any county, for making payments pursuant 

 to a special program under section 590h of this title 

 approved by the Secretary for such county: Pro- 

 vided. That farm acreage allotments shall be made 

 for wheat in 1938, but in determining compliance 

 wheat shall be considered in the group with other 

 crops for which special acreage allotments are not 

 made. 



Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this 

 section and the provisions of section 590g(g) of this 

 title, programs of soil-building practices, soil- and 

 water-conserving practices, and agriculture-related 

 pollution prevention and abatement practices shall 

 be based on a distribution of the funds available for 

 payments and grants among the several States In 

 accordance with their conservation needs, as de- 

 terminated by the Secretary, except that the propor- 

 tion allocated to any State shall not be reduced by 

 more than 15 per centum from the distribution of 

 such funds for the next preceding program year. 

 In carrying out such programs, the Secretary shall 

 give particular consideration to conservation prob- 

 lems on farm lands diverted from crops under acre- 

 age allotment programs £ind to the maintenance of 

 a proper balance between soil conserving and soil 

 depleting crops on the farm. (As amended Aug. 30, 

 1972, Pub. L. 92-419, title VI. § 606(6), 86 Stat. 677.) 

 Amendments 



1972 — Pub. L, 92-419 made provisions of last paragraph 

 respecting distribution of funds applicable to programs 

 of agriculture-related pollution prevention and abatement 

 practices. 



1954— Act Aug 28. 1954. added last paragraph 



1938— Act Feb. 16. 1938, added paragraph beginning 

 "The funds available". 



§590p. Limitation on obligations incurred; Great 

 Plains conservation program. 



(8) The obligations incurred for the purpose of 

 carrying out, for any calendar year, the provisions 

 of sections 590g, 590h. 5901, and 590j to 590n of this 

 title shall not exceed $500,000,000. 



(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law — 

 (1) the Secretary is authorized, within the 

 amounts of such appropriations as may be pro- 

 vided therefor, to enter into contracts of not to 

 exceed ten years with owners and operators of land 

 in the Great Plains area having such control as 

 the Secretary determines to be needed of the 

 farms, ranches, or other lands covered thereby: but 

 such contracts shall be entered into with respect 

 to lands, other than farms or ranches, only where 

 erosion is so serious as to make such contracts 

 necessarj" for the protection of farm or ranch 

 lands. Such contracts shall be designed to assist 

 farm, ranch, or other land owners or operators to 

 make, in orderly progression over a period of years, 

 changes in their cropping systems or land uses 

 which are needed to conserve, develop, protect, 

 and utilize the soil and water resources of their 

 farms, ranches, and other lands and to Install the 

 soil and water conservation measures and carry 

 out the prac*'ces needed under such changed sys- 

 tems and uses. Such contracts may be entered into 



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