1995 U.S. Code
Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 42 - EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM
Sec. 2201 - Payments to agricultural producers for carrying out wind erosion control or rehabilitation measures; criteria

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make payments to agricultural producers who carry out emergency measures to control wind erosion on farmlands or to rehabilitate farmlands damaged by wind erosion, floods, hurricanes, or other natural disasters when, as a result of the foregoing, new conservation problems have been created that (1) if not treated, will impair or endanger the land, (2) materially affect the productive capacity of the land, (3) represent damage that is unusual in character and, except for wind erosion, is not the type that would recur frequently in the same area, and (4) will be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use.

(Pub. L. 95–334, title IV, §401, Aug. 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 433.)

Section 406 of title IV of Pub. L. 95–334 provided that: “The provisions of this title [enacting this chapter] shall become effective October 1, 1978.”

This section is referred to in sections 3811, 3821 of this title.