Land eligibility.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) For land to be eligible, the Deputy Administrator must determine that land that is the subject of the cost share: (1) Will have new conservation problems caused as a result of a natural disaster that, if not treated, would: (i) Impair or endanger the land; (ii) Materially affect the productive capacity of the land; (iii) Represent unusual damage that, except for wind erosion, is not of the type likely to recur frequently in the same area; and (iv) Be so costly to repair that Federal assistance is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use. Conservation problems existing prior to the disaster are not eligible for cost-share assistance. (2) Be physically located in a county in which the ECP has been implemented; and (3) Be one of the following: (i) Land expected to have annual agricultural production, (ii) A field windbreak or a farmstead shelterbelt on which the ECP practice to be implemented involves removing debris that interferes with normal farming operations on the farm and correcting damage caused by the disaster; or (iii) A farm access road on which debris interfering with the normal farming operation needs to be removed. (b) Land is ineligible for cost share if the Deputy Administrator determines that it is, as applicable: (1) Protected by a levee or dike that was not effectively and properly functioning prior to the disaster, or is protected, or intended to be protected, by a levee or dike not built to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NRCS,

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 701.105