[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR755.1]

[Page 386-387]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 755--REGIONAL PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart--Appalachian Land Stabilization and Conservation Program
 
Sec. 755.1  Definitions.


    As used in this subpart the following terms shall have the following 
meanings:
    (a) Act means the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965.
    (b) Appalachian Region or the Region means that area of the Eastern 
United States consisting of the following counties (including any 
political subdivision located within such area):
    In Alabama, the counties of Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, 
Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert, Coosa, Cullman, De Kalb, 
Elmore, Etowah, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar, 
Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, 
Pickens, Randolph, Saint Clair, Shelby, Talladega, Tallapoosa, 
Tuscaloosa, Walker, and Winston;
    In Georgia, the counties of Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, 
Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Dawson, Douglas, Fannin, Floyd, Forsyth, 
Franklin, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Haralson, Heard, 
Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Rabun, 
Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White, and Whitfield;
    In Kentucky, the counties of Adair, Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, 
Carter, Casey, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Elliott, Estill, 
Fleming, Floyd, Garrard, Green, Greenup, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, 
Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Lincoln, 
McCreary, Madison, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Monroe, Montgomery, 
Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan, 
Russell, Wayne, Whitley, and Wolfe;
    In Maryland, the counties of Allegany, Garrett, and Washington;
    In Mississippi, the counties of Alcorn, Benton, Chickasaw, Choctaw, 
Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Noxubee, 
Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, and 
Winston;
    In New York, the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, 
Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, 
Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, and Tompkins;
    In North Carolina, the counties of Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, 
Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Davie, Forsyth, 
Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, 
Polk, Rutherford, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, 
Yadkin, and Yancey;
    In Ohio, the counties of Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, 
Clermont, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, 
Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, 
Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Tuscarawas, Vinton, and Washington;
    In Pennsylvania, the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, 
Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Butler, Cambria, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, 
Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Fayette, 
Forest, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, Juniata, 
Lackawanna, Lawrence, Luzerne, Lycoming, McKean, Mercer, Mifflin, 
Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Pike, Potter, Schuylkill, 
Snyder, Somerset, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Union, Venango, Warren, 
Washington, Wayne, Westmoreland, and Wyoming;
    In South Carolina, the counties of Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, 
Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg;
    In Tennessee, the counties of Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, 
Campbell, Cannon, Carter, Claiborne, Clay, Cocke, Coffee, Cumberland, 
DeKalb, Fentress, Franklin, Grainger, Greene, Grundy, Hamblen, Hamilton, 
Hancock, Hawkins, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, Loudon, McMinn, 
Macon, Marion, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Overton, Pickett, Polk, Putnam, 
Rhea, Roane, Scott, Sequatchie, Sevier, Smith, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union, 
Van Buren, Warren, Washington, and White;
    In Virginia, the counties of Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Botetourt, 
Buchanan, Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Highland, 
Lee, Pulaski, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and 
Wythe;
    All the counties of West Virginia.
    (c) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United 
States or any officer or employee of the United States Department of 
Agriculture to whom authority has been delegated, or to whom authority 
may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.
    (d) Administrator means the Administrator or Acting Administrator of 
the Farm Service Agency, United States Department of Agriculture.
    (e) Deputy Administrator means the Deputy Administrator or Acting 
Deputy Administrator for State and County Operations, Farm Service 
Agency, United States Department of Agriculture.

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    (f) Director means the Director or Acting Director of the Farmer 
Programs Division, Farm Service Agency, United States Department of 
Agriculture.
    (g) State means any one of the States in the Appalachian Region.
    (h) State committee means the persons in a State designated by the 
Secretary as the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation State 
Committee under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
Allotment Act, as amended.
    (i) County means a political subdivision of a State identified as a 
county.
    (j) County committee means the persons elected within a county as 
the county committee pursuant to regulations governing the selection and 
functions of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation county and 
community committees under section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and 
Domestic Allotment Act, as amended.
    (k) Operator means the person who is in charge of the supervision 
and conduct of the farming operations on the entire farm.
    (l) Occupier means any person other than the owner or operator who 
has an interest as tenant or sharecropper in the acreage covered by the 
contract.
    (m) Farm means that area of land defined as a farm under the 
regulations governing Reconstitution of Farms, Allotments, and Bases, 
part 719 of this chapter, as amended, or, for purposes of contracts 
entered into pursuant to Sec. 755.20, the land covered by the contract.
    (n) Cropland means that land considered as cropland under the 
regulations governing Reconstitution of Farms, Allotments, and Bases, 
part 719 of this chapter, as amended.
    (o) Contract means a Cost-Share Contract, Appalachian Land 
Stabilization and Conservation Program.
    (p) Commission means the Appalachian Regional Commission which is 
composed of one Federal member (Federal Cochairman) and one member from 
each participating State in the Appalachian region.
    (q) Federal Cochairman means the Federal Cochairman of the 
Appalachian Regional Commission.
    (r) State Cochairman means the State Cochairman of the Appalachian 
Regional Commission as elected by the State members of the Commission 
from among their number.

[30 FR 8669, July 9, 1965, as amended by Amdt. 2, 30 FR 14099, Nov. 9, 
1965; Amdt. 4, 33 FR 16141, Nov. 5, 1968; Amdt. 5, 35 FR 8442, May 29, 
1970]