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16 U.S.C. § 590q — Coverage; “State” defined; short title
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**(a)** This chapter shall apply to the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands, and, as used in this chapter, the term “State” includes Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
**(b)** This chapter may be cited as the “Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act”.
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**(a)** This chapter shall apply to the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands, and, as used in this chapter, the term “State” includes Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
**(b)** This chapter may be cited as the “Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act”.
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**(a) Annual funding** For each of fiscal years 2014 through 2031, the Secretary shall use the funds, facilities, and authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out the following programs under this chapter (including the provision of technical assistance):
(1) The conservation reserve program under subpart B of part I of subchapter IV, including, to the maximum extent practicable—
(A) $12,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2019 through 2023 to provide payments under [section 3834(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3834/c&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(B) $50,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2019 through 2023, including not more than $5,000,000 to provide outreach and technical assistance, to carry out [section 3835(f) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3835/f&num=0&edition=prelim) to facilitate the transfer of land subject to contracts from contract holders to covered farmers or ranchers, as defined in [section 3835(f)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section3835/f/1&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The agricultural conservation easement program under subchapter VII using to the maximum extent practicable—
(A) $625,000,000 for fiscal year 2026;
(B) $650,000,000 for fiscal year 2027;
(C) $675,000,000 for fiscal year 2028;
(D) $700,000,000 for fiscal year 2029;
(E) $700,000,000 for fiscal year 2030; and
(F) $700,000,000 for fiscal year 2031.
(3) The programs under part IV of subchapter IV, using, to the maximum extent practicable—
(A) for the environmental quality incentives program under subpart A of part IV of subchapter IV—
(i) $2,655,000,000 for fiscal
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It is recognized that the wastage of soil and moisture resources on farm, grazing, and forest lands of the Nation, resulting from soil erosion, is a menace to the national welfare and that it is declared to be the policy of Congress to provide permanently for the control and prevention of soil erosion to preserve soil, water, and related resources, promote soil and water quality, control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs, and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment, and the Secretary of Agriculture, from now on, shall coordinate and direct all activities with relation to soil erosion and in order to effectuate this policy is authorized, from time to time—
(1) To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion and the preventive measures needed, to publish the results of any such surveys, investigations, or research, to disseminate information concerning such methods, and to conduct demonstrational projects in areas subject to erosion by wind or water;
(2) To carry out preventive measures, including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation, the growing of vegetation, and changes in use of land;
(3) To cooperate or enter into agreements with, or to furnish financial or other aid to, any agency, governmental or otherwise, or any person, subject to such conditions as he may deem necessary, for the purposes of this chapter; and
(4) To acquire lands, or rights or interests therein, by purchase, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, whenever necessary for the purposes of this chapter.
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**(a) Fiscal years 2009 through 2013 11 So in original. Heading and text do not correspond.** Of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary of Agriculture shall make available $9,750,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2012 1 to carry out this subchapter.
**(b) Authorization of appropriations** There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out this section $12,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2023.
**(c) Additional source of funds** In addition to funds appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in subsection (b) for a fiscal year, the Secretary may use such amount of the funds appropriated for that fiscal year to carry out the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act ([16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) as the Secretary determines necessary to cover the cost of technical assistance, management, and enforcement responsibilities for land enrolled in the healthy forests reserve program pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of [section 6574 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section6574&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Duration of availability** The funds made available under subsection (a) shall remain available until expended.
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**(a) General rule** Gross income does not include the excludable portion of payments received under—
(1) The rural clean water program authorized by section 208(j) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ([33 U.S.C. 1288(j)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1288/j&num=0&edition=prelim)).
(2) The rural abandoned mine program authorized by section 406 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 ([30 U.S.C. 1236](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section1236&num=0&edition=prelim)).
(3) The water bank program authorized by the Water Bank Act ([16 U.S.C. 1301](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1301&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(4) The emergency conservation measures program authorized by title IV of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978.
(5) The agricultural conservation program authorized by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act ([16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim)).
(6) The resource conservation and development program authorized by the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act and by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act ([7 U.S.C. 1010](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1010&num=0&edition=prelim); [16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
(7) Any small watershed program administered by the Secretary of Agriculture which is determined by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate to be substantially similar to the type of programs described in paragraphs (1) through (8).
(8) Any program of a State, posses
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It is declared to be the policy of Congress to continue the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], for the purpose of conserving national resources, preventing the wasteful use of soil fertility, and of preserving, maintaining, and rebuilding the farm and ranch land resources in the national public interest; to accomplish these purposes through the encouragement of soil-building and soil-conserving crops and practices; to assist in the marketing of agricultural commodities for domestic consumption and for export; and to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in cotton, wheat, corn, and rice to the extent necessary to provide an orderly, adequate, and balanced flow of such commodities in interstate and foreign commerce through storage of reserve supplies, loans, marketing quotas, assisting farmers to obtain insofar as practicable, parity prices for such commodities and parity of income, and assisting consumers to obtain an adequate and steady supply of such commodities at fair prices.
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**(a) Definitions** In this section:
(1) **Agricultural programs** — The term “agricultural programs” are those established or authorized by—
(A) the Agricultural Act of 1949 [[7 U.S.C. 1421](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1421&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.];
(B) the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act [[7 U.S.C. 1921](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1921&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.];
(C) the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 [[7 U.S.C. 1281](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section1281&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.];
(D) the Soil Conservation Act;
(E) the Domestic Allotment Assistance Act;
(F) the Food Security Act of 1985; and
(G) other such Acts as the Secretary deems appropriate.
(2) **Beginning farmer or rancher** — The term “beginning farmer or rancher” means a person that—
(A)
(i) has not operated a farm or ranch; or
(ii) has operated a farm or ranch for not more than 10 years; and
(B) meets such other criteria as the Secretary may establish.
(3) **Department** — The term “Department” means the Department of Agriculture.
(4) **Secretary** — The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(5) **Socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher** — The term “socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher” means a farmer or rancher who is a member of a socially disadvantaged group.
(6) **Socially disadvantaged group** — The term “socially disadvantaged group” means a group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.
(7) **Veteran farmer or rancher** — The term “veteran farmer or ranche
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**(a)** Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe that any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, any program or operation undertaken under this chapter or the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended [[16 U.S.C. 590a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], or [section 612c of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section612c&num=0&edition=prelim), or any loan, purchase, or other program or operation undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, or any agency operating under its direction, with respect to any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any agricultural commodity or product thereof with respect to which any such program or operation is being undertaken, he shall so advise the President, and, if the President agrees that there is reason for such belief, the President shall cause an immediate investigation to be made by the United States International Trade Commission, which shall give precedence to investigations under this section to determine such facts. Such investigation shall be made after due notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties, and shall be conducted subject to such regulations as the President shall specify.
**(b)** If, on the basis of such investigation and report to him of findings and recommendations made in connection therewith, the President finds the existence of such facts, he shall by proclamation impose such fees
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 590q
mining the proper allocation of funds as between the
various commodities and making reference to programs
of soil-building practices, soil-conserving and water-
conserving practices, and agricultural-related pollution
prevention and abatement practices.
1972—Pub. L. 92–419 made provisions of last paragraph
respecting distribution of funds applicable to programs
of agriculture-related pollution prevention and abate-
ment practices.
1954—Act Aug. 28, 1954, inserted last par.
1938—Act Feb. 16, 1938, inserted par. beginning ‘‘The
funds available’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1977 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–113 effective Oct. 1, 1977,
see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95–113, set out as a note
under section 1307 of Title 7, Agriculture.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1938 AMENDMENT
Act Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title I, § 105, 52 Stat. 36, as
amended by section 1 of act Apr. 7, 1938, provided that
the amendment made by that act, amending this sec-
tion, ‘‘shall first be effective with respect to farming
operations carried out in the calendar year 1938. Not-
withstanding such amendments, payments with respect
to farming operations carried out in the calendar year
1938 and based upon any soil-depleting crop for which
special acreage allotments are established shall be
made at not less than 90 per centum of the rates an-
nounced by the Secretary prior to the enactment of
this act. Nothing contained herein shall require recon-
stituting, for 1938, any county or other local committee
which has been constituted prior to February 1, 1938.’’
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions respecting lands under jurisdiction of De-
partment of the Interior, see Transfer of Functions
note set out u
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