[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR624.7]

[Page 395]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 624_EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROTECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  624.7  Limitations on use of emergency funds.

    Emergency watershed protection funds may not be used to:
    (a) Perform operation or maintenance (periodic work that is 
necessary to maintain the efficiency and effectiveness of a measure to 
perform as originally designed and installed).
    (b) Solve watershed problems that existed before the disaster.
    (c) Repair, rebuild, or maintain private or public transportation 
facilities, public utilities, or similar facilities.
    (d) Perform work on features of projects installed under the 
authority of Pub. L. 83-566, Pub. L. 78-534, Resource Conservation and 
Development, or measures installed by other Federal agencies. Exceptions 
may be made at the discretion of the Chief of NRCS.
    (e) Construct works that would adversely affect downstream water 
rights.
    (f) Make improvements to public or private property not essential to 
the reduction of threats caused by watershed improvement.
    (g) Perform any work not determined to be economically and 
environmentally defensible under the provisions of this rule.

[46 FR 56577, Nov. 17, 1981, as amended at 48 FR 4448, Feb. 1, 1983]