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Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
Public Law 104-127
104th Congress
An Act to modify the operation of certain agricultural programs
Apr. 4, 1996 - [H.R. 2854]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, Sec. 388. Farmland Protection Program.
(Establishment. 16 USC 3830)
In General. — The Secretary of Agriculture shall
establish and carry out a farmland protection program under which the Secretary
shall purchase conservation easements or other interests in not less than
170,000, nor more than 340,000, acres of land with prime, unique, or other
productive soil that is subject to a pending offer from a State or local
government for the purpose of protecting topsoil by limiting nonagricultural
uses of the land.
Conservation Plan. — Any highly erodible cropland for
which a conservation easement or other interest is purchased under this section
shall be subject to the requirements of a conservation plan that requires, at
the option of the Secretary, the conversion of the cropland to less intensive
uses.
Funding. — The Secretary shall use not more than
$35,000,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out this
section.
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