[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: 7CFR701.8]

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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. 701.8  Eligible land.

    (a) The program is applicable to:
    (1) Privately-owned lands;
    (2) Land owned by a State or political subdivision of a State;
    (3) Lands owned by corporations which are partly owned by the United 
States;
    (4) Lands temporarily owned by the United States or a corporation 
wholly owned by it, which were not acquired or reserved for conservation 
purposes, including lands administered by the Farmers Home 
Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, or by any other 
government agency designated by the Deputy Administrator, State and 
County Operations;
    (5) Any cropland farmed by private persons which is owned by the 
United States or a corporation wholly owned by it;
    (6) Indian lands, except that where grazing operations are carried 
out on Indian lands administered by the Department of the Interior, such 
lands are within the scope of the program only if covered by a written 
agreement approved by the Department of the Interior giving the operator 
an interest in the grazing and forage growing on the land and a right to 
occupy the land in order to carry out the grazing operations; and
    (7) Noncropland owned by the United States on which practices are 
performed by private persons where such practices directly conserve or 
benefit nearby or adjoining privately-owned lands of the persons 
performing the practices and such persons maintain and use such 
federally-owned noncropland under agreement with the Federal agency 
having jurisdiction thereof.
    (b) The program is not applicable to:
    (1) Noncropland owned by the United States which was acquired or 
reserved for conservation purposes, or which is to be retained 
permanently under Government ownership, including, but not limited to, 
grazing lands administered by the Forest Service of the U.S. Department 
of Agriculture, or by the Bureau of Land Management (including lands 
administered under the Taylor Grazing Act), or the Fish and Wildlife 
Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, except as indicated in 
paragraph (a)(7) of this section.
    (2) Nonprivate persons for performance of practices on any land 
owned by the United States or a corporation wholly owned by it.