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16 U.S.C. § 3851 — Experienced services program
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**(a) Establishment and purpose** The Secretary shall establish an experienced services program (referred to in this section as the “program”) for the purpose of utilizing the talents of individuals who are age 55 or older, but who are not employees of the Department of Agriculture or a State agriculture department, to provide—
(1) technical services in support of the conservation-related programs and authorities carried out by the Secretary, including conservation planning assistance, technical consultation, and assistance with design and implementation of conservation practices; and
(2) technical, professional, and administrative services to support the research, education, and economics mission area of the Department of Agriculture (including the Agricultural Research Service, the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Library, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture), including—
(A) supporting agricultural research and information;
(B) advancing scientific knowledge relating to agriculture;
(C) enhancing access to agricultural information;
(D) providing statistical information and research results to farmers, ranchers, agribusiness, and public officials; and
(E) assisting research, education, and extension programs in land-grant colleges and universities (as defined in [section 3103 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3103&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(b) Program agreements**
(1) **Relation to older American community service employment program** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to Federal grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts, to carry out the program during a fis
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**(a) Establishment and purpose** The Secretary shall establish an experienced services program (referred to in this section as the “program”) for the purpose of utilizing the talents of individuals who are age 55 or older, but who are not employees of the Department of Agriculture or a State agriculture department, to provide—
(1) technical services in support of the conservation-related programs and authorities carried out by the Secretary, including conservation planning assistance, technical consultation, and assistance with design and implementation of conservation practices; and
(2) technical, professional, and administrative services to support the research, education, and economics mission area of the Department of Agriculture (including the Agricultural Research Service, the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Library, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture), including—
(A) supporting agricultural research and information;
(B) advancing scientific knowledge relating to agriculture;
(C) enhancing access to agricultural information;
(D) providing statistical information and research results to farmers, ranchers, agribusiness, and public officials; and
(E) assisting research, education, and extension programs in land-grant colleges and universities (as defined in [section 3103 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3103&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(b) Program agreements**
(1) **Relation to older American community service employment program** — Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to Federal grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts, to carry out the program during a fiscal year, the Secretary may enter into agreements with nonprofit private agencies and organizations eligible to receive grants for that fiscal year under the Community Service Senior Opportunities Act ([42 U.S.C. 3056](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section3056&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) to secure participants for the program who will provide technical, professional, or administrative services, as applicable, under the program.
(2) **Required determination** — Before entering into an agreement under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall ensure that the agreement would not—
(A) result in the displacement of individuals employed by the Department, including partial displacement through reduction of non-overtime hours, wages, or employment benefits;
(B) result in the use of an individual under the program for a job or function in a case in which a Federal employee is in a layoff status from the same or a substantially-equivalent job or function with the Department; or
(C) affect existing contracts for services.
**(c) Funding source**
(1) **Conservation technical services** — Except as provided in paragraph (2), with respect to subsection (a)(1), the Secretary may carry out the program using funds made available to carry out each program under this chapter.
(2) **Exclusion** — Funds made available to carry out the conservation reserve program may not be used to carry out the program.
(3) **Research, education, and economics services** — With respect to services referred to in subsection (a)(2), the Secretary may carry out the program under the mission area referred to in such subsection to the extent that funds are specifically appropriated to provide such services under such mission area.
**(d) Liability** An individual providing technical, professional, or administrative services, as applicable, under the program is deemed to be an employee of the United States Government for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28 if the individual—
(1) is providing technical, professional, or administrative services, as applicable, pursuant to an agreement entered into under subsection (b); and
(2) is acting within the scope of the agreement.
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**(a) Filing and availability for inspection; discrepancies; coastal areas** The boundary maps described in this Act shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture with regard to the National Forest System. In the event of discrepancies between the acreages specified in this Act and those depicted on such maps, the maps shall be controlling, but the boundaries of areas added to the National Park, Wildlife Refuge and National Forest Systems shall, in coastal areas not extend seaward beyond the mean high tide line to include lands owned by the State of Alaska unless the State shall have concurred in such boundary extension and such extension is accomplished under the notice and reporting requirements of this Act.
**(b) Changes in land management status; publication in Federal Register; filing; clerical errors; boundary features and adjustments** As soon as practicable after December 2, 1980, a map and legal description of each change in land management status effected by this Act, including the National Wilderness Preservation System, shall be published in the Federal Register and filed with the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, and each such description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in each such legal description and map may be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Secretary. Whenever possible boundaries shall follow hydrographic divides or embrace other topographic or natural features. Following reasonable notice in writing to the Congress of his intention to do so the Secretary an
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1251, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1516, related to technical assistance for water resources.
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**(a) In general**
(1) **Establishment of program** — To foster individual economic self-sufficiency and promote useful opportunities in community service activities (which shall include community service employment) for unemployed low-income persons who are age 55 or older, particularly persons who have poor employment prospects, and to increase the number of persons who may enjoy the benefits of unsubsidized employment in both the public and private sectors, the Secretary of Labor (referred to in this subchapter as the “Secretary”) may establish an older American community service employment program.
(2) **Use of appropriated amounts** — Amounts appropriated to carry out this subchapter shall be used only to carry out the provisions contained in this subchapter.
**(b) Grant authority**
(1) **Projects** — To carry out this subchapter, the Secretary may make grants to public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations, agencies of a State, and tribal organizations to carry out the program established under subsection (a). Such grants may provide for the payment of costs, as provided in subsection (c), of projects developed by such organizations and agencies in cooperation with the Secretary in order to make such program effective or to supplement such program. The Secretary shall make the grants from allotments made under [section 3056d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section3056d&num=0&edition=prelim), and in accordance with section 3056l of this title. No payment shall be made by the Secretary toward the cost of any project established or administered by such an organization or agency unless the Secretary determines that such project—
(A) will provide community service employment only for eligible individ
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The Congress hereby finds and declares that, in keeping with the traditional American concept of the inherent dignity of the individual in our democratic society, the older people of our Nation are entitled to, and it is the joint and several duty and responsibility of the governments of the United States, of the several States and their political subdivisions, and of Indian tribes to assist our older people to secure equal opportunity to the full and free enjoyment of the following objectives:
(1) An adequate income in retirement in accordance with the American standard of living.
(2) The best possible physical and mental health (including access to person-centered, trauma-informed services as appropriate) which science can make available and without regard to economic status.
(3) Obtaining and maintaining suitable housing, independently selected, designed and located with reference to special needs and available at costs which older citizens can afford.
(4) Full restoration services for those who require institutional care, and a comprehensive array of community-based, long-term care services adequate to appropriately sustain older people in their communities and in their homes, including support to family members and other persons providing voluntary care to older individuals needing long-term care services.
(5) Opportunity for employment with no discriminatory personnel practices because of age.
(6) Retirement in health, honor, dignity—after years of contribution to the economy.
(7) Participating in and contributing to meaningful activity within the widest range of civic, cultural, education and training and recreational opportunities.
(8) Efficient community services, including access to low-cost transportation, which provide a choice in supported living ar
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Agricultural commodity** — The term “agricultural commodity” has the meaning given the term in [section 5602 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section5602&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher** — The term “geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher” has the meaning given the term in section 10906(a) of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 ([7 U.S.C. 2204](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section2204&num=0&edition=prelim) note; Public Law 107–171).
**(b) Authorization** Subject to the availability of funds under subsection (d), the Secretary may provide geographically disadvantaged farmers or ranchers direct reimbursement payments for activities described in subsection (c).
**(c) Transportation**
(1) **In general** — Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary may provide direct reimbursement payments to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher to transport an agricultural commodity, or inputs used to produce an agricultural commodity, during a fiscal year.
(2) **Proof of eligibility** — To be eligible to receive assistance under paragraph (1), a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher shall demonstrate to the Secretary that transportation of the agricultural commodity or inputs occurred over a distance of more than 30 miles, as determined by the Secretary.
(3) **Amount**
(A) *In general* — Subject to paragraph (2), the amount of direct reimbursement payments made to a geographically disadvantaged farmer or rancher under this section for a fiscal year shall equal the product obtained by multiplying—
(i) the amount of costs incurred by the geographically di
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 330, as added Pub. L. 94–68, § 8, Aug. 5, 1975, 89 Stat. 382; amended Pub. L. 96–438, § 3(b)(2), Oct. 13, 1980, 94 Stat. 1875, authorized additional emergency loans.
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**(a)** For purposes of subchapters I through VIII:
(1) The term “agricultural commodity” means—
(A) any agricultural commodity planted and produced in a State by annual tilling of the soil, including tilling by one-trip planters; or
(B) sugarcane planted and produced in a State.
(2) **Beginning farmer or rancher.—** — The term “beginning farmer or rancher” has the meaning given the term in [section 1991(a)(8) of title 7](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1991/a/8&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Conservation plan.—** — The term “conservation plan” means the document that—
(A) applies to highly erodible cropland;
(B) describes the conservation system applicable to the highly erodible cropland and describes the decisions of the person with respect to location, land use, tillage systems, and conservation treatment measures and schedule; and
(C) is approved by the local soil conservation district, in consultation with the local committees established under [section 590h(b)(5) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590h/b/5&num=0&edition=prelim) and the Secretary, or by the Secretary.
(4) **Conservation system.—** — The term “conservation system” means a combination of 1 or more conservation measures or management practices that—
(A) are based on local resource conditions, available conservation technology, and the standards and guidelines contained in the Natural Resources Conservation Service field office technical guides; and
(B) are designed to achieve, in a cost effective and technically practicable manner, a substantial reduction in soil erosion or a substantial improvement in soil conditions on a field or group of fields containing highly erodible croplan
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**(a) In general** The Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, may use funds derived from conservation-related programs executed on National Forest System land to utilize the Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program established pursuant to [section 3851 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3851&num=0&edition=prelim) to provide technical services for conservation-related programs and authorities carried out by the Secretary on National Forest System land.
**(b) Termination of effectiveness** The authority provided to the Secretary to carry out this section terminates effective October 1, 2023.11 See Extension of Forest Service Participation in Aces Program note below.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 3851
(2) shall be made as an interim rule effective
on publication with an opportunity for notice
and comment.
(c) Congressional review of agency rulemaking
In promulgating regulations under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall use the authority pro-
vided under section 808 of title 5.
(Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1246, as added Pub. L.
113–79, title II, § 2608, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 761.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was
in the original ‘‘this title’’, meaning title XII of Pub. L.
99–198, which enacted this chapter and former section
2005a of this title and amended sections 590g, 2004, 2005,
2006, and 2009 of this title, sections 4207 and 4209 of Title
7, Agriculture, and provisions set out as a note under
section 1981 of Title 7.
PRIOR PROVISIONS
A prior section 3846, Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1246, as
added Pub. L. 101–624, title XIV, § 1444, Nov. 28, 1990, 104
Stat. 3602, directed Secretary to report to Congress on
erodible land and wetland conservation program, prior
to repeal by Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1011(a), Dec. 21, 1995,
109 Stat. 709.
§ 3847. Data on conservation practices
(a) Data on conservation practices
The Secretary shall identify available data
sets within the Department of Agriculture re-
garding the use of conservation practices and
the effect of such practices on farm and ranch
profitability (including such effects relating to
crop yields, soil health, and other risk-related
factors).
(b) Report
Not later than 1 year after December 20, 2018,
the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on
Agriculture of the House of Representatives and
the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry of the Senate a report that in
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 3056
IX of Pub. L. 89–73 by Pub. L. 94–135, title I, § 113(a),
Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 720, and was renumbered title V
and amended by Pub. L. 95–478, title I, § 105, title V,
§ 503(d), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1547, 1559; Pub. L. 97–115,
Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1595; Pub. L. 98–459, Oct. 9, 1984,
98 Stat. 1767; Pub. L. 100–175, Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 926;
Pub. L. 100–628, Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3224; Pub. L.
102–375, Sept. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 1195; Pub. L. 103–171,
Dec. 2, 1993, 107 Stat. 1988; Pub. L. 105–220, Aug. 7, 1998,
112 Stat. 936; Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681;
Pub. L. 105–332, Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3076; Pub. L.
106–501, Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2226; Pub. L. 109–270, Aug.
12, 2006, 120 Stat. 683. Title V is shown herein, however,
as having been added by Pub. L. 109–365, title V, § 501,
Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2563, without reference to inter-
vening amendments because of the extensive revision
of the title’s provisions by Pub. L. 109–365.
§ 3056. Older American community service em-
ployment program
(a) In general
(1) Establishment of program
To foster individual economic self-suffi-
ciency and promote useful opportunities in
community service activities (which shall in-
clude community service employment) for un-
employed low-income persons who are age 55
or older, particularly persons who have poor
employment prospects, and to increase the
number of persons who may enjoy the benefits
of unsubsidized employment in both the public
and private sectors, the Secretary of Labor
(referred to in this subchapter as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) may establish an older American
community service employment program.
(2) Use of appropriated amounts
Amounts appropriated to carry
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