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CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the Federal agency that works with private landowners to conserve their natural resources. NRCS employees help land users and communities approach conservation planning and implementation with an understanding of how natural resources relate to each other and to people—and how human activities affect those resources. The agency emphasizes voluntary, science-based assistance, partnerships, and cooperative problem solving at the community level. The mission of NRCS is to work on the Nation's non-Federal lands to conserve, improve, and sustain natural resources. The following functions support the mission. (a) NRCS facilitates and provides conservation technical assistance at the local level that helps people assess their natural resource conditions and needs, set goals, identify programs and other resources to address those needs, develop proposals and recommendations, implement solutions, and measure their success. The agency's role is to assist with: (1) Resource inventories, (2) Resource assessments, (3) Planning assistance, and/or (4) Technical assistance. (b) NRCS provides technical assistance through local conservation districts to land users, communities, watershed groups, Federal and State agencies, other partners, and customers. (c) NRCS provides assistance on a voluntary basis. (d) The agency's work focuses on soil, water, air, plant, and animal conservation including erosion reduction, water quality improvement, we

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 601.1