[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7, Parts 700 to 899]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR701.19]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 701--CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart--Agricultural Conservation Program
 
Sec. 701.19  Special provisions for low-income farmers and ranchers.

    (a) Except as otherwise provided in Sec. 701.13(c), the county 
committee may approve, in the case of low-income farmers and ranchers as 
defined in this section, level of cost-sharing of up to 80 percent of 
the average cost of performing practices.

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    (b) A low-income farmer or rancher is one who, as determined by the 
county committee, is a small producer whose livelihood is largely 
dependent on the farm or ranch and whose prospective income and 
financial resources for the current year are such that the farmer or 
rancher could not reasonably be expected to perform needed conservation 
practices at levels of cost-sharing applicable to other persons in the 
county.
    (c) In approving requests for cost-sharing the county committee 
shall give special consideration to requests filed by low-income farmers 
and ranchers.

[45 FR 49522, July 25, 1980, as amended at 47 FR 939, Jan. 8, 1982]