2022 Delaware Code
Title 7 - Conservation
Chapter 37. AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION AND ADJUSTMENT
§ 3704. Formulation and administration of state conservation plans.

(a) The University shall formulate for each calendar year and submit to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States for and in the name of this State, a state plan for carrying out the purposes of this chapter during such calendar year.

(b) The University may modify or revise any such plan in whatever manner, consistent with the terms of this chapter, it finds necessary to provide for more substantial furtherance of the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter.

(c) Each plan shall provide for such participation in its administration by such voluntary county and community committees, or voluntary associations of agricultural producers, organized under this chapter, as the University determines to be necessary or proper for the effective administration of the plan.

(d) Each plan shall provide, through agreements with agricultural producers or through other voluntary methods, for such adjustments in the utilization of land, in farming practices, and in the acreage or in the production for market, or both, of agricultural commodities, as the University determines to be calculated to effectuate as substantial accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter as may reasonably be achieved through action of this State, and for payments to agricultural producers in connection with such agreements or methods in such amounts as the University determines to be fair and reasonable and calculated to promote such accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter without depriving such producers of a voluntary and uncoerced choice of action.

(e) Any such plan shall provide for the educational programs that the University determines to be necessary or proper to promote the more substantial accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter.

(f) Each plan shall contain an estimate of expenditures necessary to carry out such plan together with a statement of the amount that the University determines to be necessary to be paid by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States as a grant in aid of such plan under § 7 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act [16 U.S.C. § 590g], in order to provide for the effective carrying out of such plan, and shall designate the amount and due date of each installment of such grant, the period to which such installment relates, and the amount determined by the University to be necessary for carrying out such plan during such period.

(g) The University may conduct such investigations as it finds to be necessary for the formulation and administration of such plans. The investigations shall be paid for from federal funds provided for the purposes of this chapter.