[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR624.3]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 624_EMERGENCY WATERSHED PROTECTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 624.3  Scope.

    EWP Program technical and financial assistance may be made available 
to a qualified sponsor, or landowners when a floodplain easement is the 
selected alternative by the Secretary of Agriculture, upon a qualified 
sponsor or landowner's request when a Federal emergency is declared by 
the President or when a local emergency is declared by the NRCS State 
Conservationist. The EWP Program is designed for emergency recovery 
work, including the purchase of floodplain easements. Emergency 
watershed protection is authorized in the 50 States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of

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Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.