[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: 7CFR1469]

[Page 707-708]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1469_CONSERVATION SECURITY PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B_Contracts and Payments
 
Sec.  1469.22  Conservation practice operation and maintenance.

    (a) The contract will incorporate the operation and maintenance of 
the conservation practice(s) applied under the contract.
    (b) The participant must operate and maintain any new conservation 
practice(s) for which a payment was received to ensure that the new 
practice or enhancement achieves its intended

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purpose for the life span of the conservation treatment, as identified 
in the contract or conservation stewardship plan, as determined by NRCS.
    (c) Conservation practices that are installed before the execution 
of a contract, but are needed in the contract to obtain the intended 
environmental benefits, must be operated and maintained as specified in 
the contract whether or not an existing practice payment is made.
    (d) NRCS may periodically inspect the conservation practices during 
the practice lifespan as specified in the contract to ensure that 
operation and maintenance are being carried out, and that the practice 
is fulfilling its intended objectives. When NRCS finds that a 
participant is not operating and maintaining practices installed through 
the CSP in an appropriate manner, NRCS will initiate contract violation 
procedures as specified in Sec.  1469.25. If an existing practice is 
part of a system that meets the quality criteria, but does not 
technically meet NRCS minimum practice standards, the practice must be 
modified or updated to meet the standard according the FOTG as specified 
in Sec.  1469.25(a) of this part.