[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1410.9]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1410_CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  1410.9  Conversion to trees.

    An owner or operator who has entered into a CRP contract prior to 
November 28, 1990, may elect to convert areas of highly erodible 
cropland, subject to such contract, that is devoted to permanent 
vegetative cover, from such cover to hardwood trees, (including alley 
cropping and riparian buffers of hardwood trees, where permitted by 
CCC), windbreaks, shelterbelts, or wildlife corridors.
    (a) For any contract modified under this section, the participant 
may elect to extend such contract in accordance with the provisions of 
Sec.  1410.7(b).
    (b) For any contract modified under this section in which such areas 
are converted to windbreaks, shelterbelts, or wildlife corridors, the 
owner must agree to maintain such plantings for a time period 
established by the Deputy Administrator at the time of the contract 
modification.
    (c) CCC shall, as it determines appropriate, pay up to 50 percent of 
the eligible cost of establishing new conservation measures authorized 
under this section, except that the total cost-share paid under such 
contract, including cost-share assistance paid when the original cover 
was established, may not exceed the amount by which CCC would have paid 
had such land been originally devoted to such new conservation measures.
    (d) For any contract modified under this section, the participant 
must participate in the Forest Stewardship Program (16 U.S.C. 2103a).