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 106 STAT. 892 PUBLIC LAW 102-341—AUG. 14, 1992 tems, including related lateral improvement measures, for making ^ cost-share payments to agricultural landowners and operators, Indian tribes, irrigation districts and associations, local governmental and nongovernmental entities, and other landowners to aid them in carrying out approved conservation practices as determined and recommended by the county ASC committees, approved . by the State ASC committees and the Secretary, and for associated costs of program planning, information and education, and program monitoring and evaluation: Provided, That the Soil Conservation Service shall provide technical assistance and the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service shall provide administrative services for the program, including but not limited to, the negotiation and administration of agreements and the disbursement of payments: Provided further, That such program shall be coordinated with the regular Agricultural Conservation Program and with research programs of other agencies. CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM ,,' (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) For necessary expenses to carry out the conservation reserve program pursuant to the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3831-3845), $1,578,517,000, to remain available until expended, to be used for Commodity Credit Corporation expenditures for costshare assistance for the establishment of conservation practices provided for in approved conservation reserve program contracts, for annual rental payments provided in such contracts, and for technical assistance: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act may be used to enter into new contracts that are in excess of the prevailing local rental rates for an acre of comparable land. TITLE III—FARMERS HOME AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY FOR SIAALL COMMUNITY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development to administer programs under the laws enacted by the Congress for the Farmers Home Administration, Rural Development Administration, Rural Electrification Administration, and Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, $572,000. RURAL DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION (INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) For necessary expenses of the Rural Development Administration, not otherwise provided for, in administering the rural development programs of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921-2000), as amended, section 1323 of the Food Security Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 1932 note), and title VI of the Rural Development Act of 1972, $37,066,000; of which $14,787,000 is hereby appropriated, $21,755,000 shall be derived by transfer from the Rural Development Insurance Fund Program Account in this Act and merged with this account, and $524,000 shall be derived by transfer from the Rural Development Loan Fund Program Account

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