[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: 7CFR755.4]

[Page 387-388]
 
                          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. 755.4  General.

    (a) The Appalachian Land Stabilization and Conservation Program will 
be administered in the field by State and county committees under the 
general direction and supervision of the Administrator. Members of 
county committees are hereby authorized to sign contracts on behalf of 
the Secretary. State and county committees do not have authority to 
modify or waive any of the provisions of these regulations, or any 
amendment, supplement, or revision thereto.
    (b) Landowners, operators, and occupiers desiring to share in the 
accomplishment of the purposes and objectives of the program will be 
given an

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opportunity to participate in the program in accordance with the 
provisions of the program as set forth in this subpart. An applicant, as 
a part of his application for assistance, will file an acceptable 
conservation and development plan for the acreage to be included in his 
contract, and the measures specified in the plan must be carried out 
irrespective of whether cost-sharing is offered. The county committee 
will determine the practices and extent of such practices to be approved 
for cost-sharing to assist the applicant in carrying out his acceptable 
plan. A contract shall be entered into setting forth the extent of the 
approved assistance. An acceptable conservation and development plan 
will be a plan developed for the land proposed to be placed under 
contract, on a form prescribed by the Administrator, with technical 
planning assistance by technicians of the Soil Conservation Service, 
except in cases where the proposed treatment involves only a single 
practice of pasture renovation or timber stand improvement or conversion 
of less than 10 acres of land to grass or trees and such use does not 
involve critical areas or unusual costs and the conservation and 
development plan is acceptable to the county committee. In approving 
contracts, the county committees shall give preference to needy 
landowners, operators, and occupiers to the extent that such preference 
is consistent with the development of land treatment programs in the 
project area.
    (c) Detailed information concerning the program as it applies to an 
individual farm may be obtained from the county FSA office for the 
county in which the farm is located or from the State FSA office.

[30 FR 8669, July 9, 1965, as amended by Amdt. 4, 33 FR 16141, Nov. 5, 
1968]