[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR611.11]

[Page 356]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 611--SOIL SURVEYS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B--Soil Survey Operations
 
Sec. 611.11  Reproduction and distribution of soil survey information.

    (a) Published soil surveys. (1) When soil survey field work is 
completed on a designated area, NRCS publishes the soil survey as soon 
as possible so that the information will be available to the public The 
published soil survey includes soil maps, soil descriptions, and soil 
interpretations for appropriate uses such as farming, engineering, 
range, woodland, recreation, and wildlife.
    (2) Each party cooperating with NRCS in a soil survey will receive 
without cost 50 copies of the published soil survey. Prior to 
publication each may order additional copies at printing cost by 
preparing a special amendment to the soil survey work plan.
    (3) The number of copies to be published and the distribution of a 
published soil survey are coordinated by NRCS with those cooperating in 
the survey and with the U.S. Senators from the state and the U.S. 
Representative from the congressional district in which the survey was 
made.
    (4) Copies of published soil surveys are sent by the Superintendent 
of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, to depository libraries 
that have requested them. Copies also are sent to interested agencies 
that have requested them.
    (5) Published soil surveys may be obtained without charge if 
available, from NRCS field and state offices, and from respective 
members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Land 
grant universities also may have copies. When the supply is exhausted, 
reference copies generally are available from libraries or on inter-
library loan.
    (b) Interim soil reports. (1) State and local units of government 
and others may need soil survey information for subdivision, town, or 
county planning, tax assessment, and other uses prior to the time a soil 
survey is published. NRCS may prepare interim reports to provide soil 
survey information to meet these needs.
    (2) Interim soil reports may include copies of soil survey field 
sheets, soil descriptions, and soil interpretive maps and tables showing 
the general rating of each kind of soil for various uses such as 
farming, range, woodland, engineering, recreation, and wildlife.
    (c) Resource conservation plan data. Information prepared 
specifically for use in developing resource conservation plans for soil 
conservation district cooperators is considered confidential. Soil maps 
and interpretations prepared for this use will not be made available to 
others without the consent of the landowner as well as the district 
governing body. However, copies of soil survey field sheets and related 
data from which the conservation plan was developed may be purchased 
from the local NRCS field office with prior approval from the NRCS state 
office. The purchase is subject to the fee schedule cited in Sec. 1.2(b) 
of this title.
    (d) Identity of advance reproductions. Advance reproductions of 
individual soil survey field sheets include the name of the soil survey 
area, the state, the names of the parties cooperating in the survey, 
date of survey, map scale, and necessary precautionary notes.

[39 FR 7415, Feb. 26, 1974, as amended at 39 FR 27553, July 29, 1974]