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16 U.S.C. § 3865 — Establishment and purposes

submitted 12 years ago by Pub. L. 99-198 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 151 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary must establish an agricultural conservation easement program for eligible land and natural resources. The program combines earlier easement programs and protects wetlands, agricultural uses, grazing, and related conservation values.

(a) The Secretary must establish an agricultural conservation easement program to conserve eligible land and natural resources through easements or other interests in land. (b) The program’s purposes are to: (1) combine the purposes and coordinate the functions of the wetlands reserve, grassland reserve, and farmland protection programs as they existed on February 6, 2014; (2) restore, protect, and enhance wetlands on eligible land; (3) protect agricultural use, future viability, and related conservation values by limiting nonagricultural uses that harm those uses or values; and (4) protect grazing uses and related conservation values by restoring or conserving eligible land.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a) Establishment

The Secretary shall establish an agricultural conservation easement program for the conservation of eligible land and natural resources through easements or other interests in land.

(b) Purposes

The purposes of the program are to—

(1)

combine the purposes and coordinate the functions of the wetlands reserve program established under section 3837 1 of this title, the grassland reserve program established under section 3838n 1 of this title, and the farmland protection program established under section 3838i 1 of this title, as such sections were in effect on the day before February 7, 2014;

(2)

restore, protect, and enhance wetlands on eligible land;

(3)

protect the agricultural use and future viability, and related conservation values, of eligible land by limiting nonagricultural uses of that land that negatively affect the agricultural uses and conservation values; and

(4)

protect grazing uses and related conservation values by restoring or conserving eligible land.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1265, as added Pub. L. 113–79, title II, § 2301(a), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 731; amended Pub. L. 115–334, title II, § 2601, Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4585.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 2014Enacted · Pub. L. 99-198 · 128 Stat. 731
  • 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-334 · 132 Stat. 4585

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 99-198 on 2014-02-07.

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