[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: 7CFR654.11]

[Page 540]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 654_OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart B_Federal Financially-Assisted Projects
 
Sec. 654.11  Sponsor(s)' responsibility.

    (a) On non-Federal land, sponsor(s) are responsible for financing 
and performing without cost to the Federal Government, needed operation 
and maintenance (O&M) of project measures installed with Federal 
financial assistance.
    (b) The Federal agency administering Federal land involving project 
measures is responsible either for performing or requiring the 
performance of O&M on land administered by that agency. If project 
measures benefit both Federal and non-Federal land or interests, the O&M 
may be performed by the Federal agency, the sponsor(s), or both as 
mutually agreed by the Federal agency, sponsor(s), and NRCS. If O&M of 
project measures is performed by mutual agreement, the cost of O&M may 
be shared by the Federal agency and sponsor(s) as agreed.
    (c) The sponsor(s) shall obtain NRCS approval before modifying a 
project measure of changing land use to fulfill a different purpose.