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CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) (1) Can maintain safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings that support diversity of individual choices; and (2) Are encouraged to attain the widest range of beneficial uses of soil, water, and related resources without degradation to the environment, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences. (b) (1) Provide assistance to Americans that will motivate them to maintain equilibrium among their ecological, cultural, natural, physical, social, and economic resources by striving for a balance between conserving and preserving the Nation's natural resource base. (2) Provide technical and financial assistance through a systematic interdisciplinary approach to planning and decisionmaking to insure a balance between the natural, physical, and social sciences. (3) Consider environmental quality equal to economic, social, and other factors in decisionmaking. (4) Insure that plans satisfy identified needs and at the same time minimize adverse effects of planned actions on the human environment through interdisciplinary planning before providing technical and financial assistance. (5) Counsel with highly qualified and experienced specialists from within and outside NRCS in many technical fields as needed. (6) Encourage broad public participation in defining environmental quality objectives and needs. (7) Identify and make provisions for detailed survey, recovery, protection, or preservation of unique cultural re

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 650.3