[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: 7CFR652.40]

[Page 464]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 652--TECHNICAL SERVICE PROVIDER ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart C--Decertification
 
Sec. 652.40  Effect of decertification.

    (a) The Department will not make payment under a program contract 
for the technical services of a decertified technical service provider 
that were provided during the period of decertification. Likewise, NRCS 
will not procure the services of a decertified technical service 
provider during the period of decertification.
    (b) National decertification list. NRCS will maintain a list of 
decertified technical service providers. NRCS will remove decertified 
providers from the list of certified providers. Program participants 
must not knowingly hire a decertified technical service provider. It is 
the program participant's responsibility to check the decertified list 
before hiring a technical service provider. Decertification of a 
technical service provider in one State decertifies the technical 
service provider from providing technical services under current 
programs in all States, the Caribbean Area, and the Pacific Basin Area.