[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR230.45]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 230--STATE AND PRIVATE FORESTRY ASSISTANCE--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart C--Forest Land Enhancement Program
 
Sec. 230.45  Recapture of cost-share assistance.

    (a) Payments made to landowners may be recaptured under one or more 
of the following circumstances:
    (1) If any landowner, successor, or assignee uses any scheme or 
device to unjustly benefit from FLEP. A scheme or device includes, but 
is not limited to, coercion, fraud or misrepresentation, false claims, 
or any business dissolution, reorganization, revival, or other legal 
mechanism designed for or having the effect of evading the requirements 
of FLEP. Financial assistance payments shall be withheld or a refund of 
all or part of any FLEP payments otherwise due or paid to that person 
shall be secured.
    (2) If any landowner or successor takes any action or fails to take 
action, which results in the destruction or impairment of a prescribed 
practice for the duration of the practice. Cost-share payments shall be 
withheld or a recapture of all or part of any FLEP payments otherwise 
due or paid shall be secured, based on the extent and effect of 
destruction and impairment.
    (3) If a landowner sells, conveys, or otherwise loses control of the 
land, except when determined by a State Forester to have been beyond the 
landowner's control, upon which there is a continuing obligation to 
maintain a practice, and the new landowner does not agree to assume the 
responsibility for maintaining the practice. In such cases the landowner 
who was originally obligated to maintain the practice shall be liable to 
reimburse the State(s) for all cost-share on such practices.
    (b) Nothing in this section requiring the withholding or refunding 
of financial assistance payments shall preclude any penalty or liability 
otherwise imposed by law.
    (c) Any landowner, successor, or assignee who is dissatisfied with 
any determination made under FLEP may request reconsideration by the 
State Forester and, if the matter is not resolved, by the Responsible 
Official. All requests for reconsideration shall be in writing and shall 
contain factual information explaining the basis for the request. All 
decisions on reconsideration must be issued in writing.

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