[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1466.22]

[Page 624]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1466--ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B--Contracts and Payments
 
Sec.  1466.22  Conservation practice operation and maintenance.

    The contract will incorporate the operation and maintenance of 
conservation practices applied under the contract. The participant must 
operate and maintain each conservation practice installed under the 
contract for its intended purpose for the life span of the conservation 
practice as determined by NRCS. Conservation practices installed before 
the execution of a contract, but needed in the contract to obtain the 
environmental benefits agreed upon must be operated and maintained as 
specified in the contract. NRCS may periodically inspect a conservation 
practice during the lifespan of the practice as specified in the 
contract to ensure that operation and maintenance are occurring. When 
NRCS finds that a participant is not operating and maintaining practices 
in an appropriate manner, NRCS will request a refund of cost-share or 
incentive payments made for that practice under the contract.