16 U.S.C. § 3824 — Fairness of compliance

submitted 36 years ago by Pub. L. 99-198 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 60 words · no verdicts yet

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This section protects cropland changed by an unrelated person or public entity outside the landowner’s or tenant’s control and without prior approval.

If an unrelated person or public entity, outside the landowner’s or tenant’s control and without prior approval, changes cropland so it would be classified as a wetland, the affected land is not treated as wetland under this subchapter.

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If the actions of an unrelated person or public entity, outside the control of, and without the prior approval of, the landowner or tenant result in a change in the characteristics of cropland that would cause the land to be determined to be a wetland, the affected land shall not be considered to be wetland for purposes of this subchapter.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1224, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XIV, § 1424, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3576.)

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1990Enacted · Pub. L. 99-198 · 104 Stat. 3576

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