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PUBLIC LAW 156-JULY 28, 1956

[67 S T A T.

agricultural conservation practices and $1,000,000 shall be available for conservation practices related directly to flood prevention work in approved watersheds: Provided, That not to exceed $26,178,700 of the total sum provided under this head shall be available during the current fiscal year for salaries and other administrative expenses for carrying out such program, the cost of aerial photographs, however, not to be charged to such limitation; but not more than $4,500,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation account, "Administrative expenses, "usc*i3^92. section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938": Provided further, ciaima^s "* ^ * ° That payments to claimants hereunder may be made upon the certificate of the claimant, which certificate shall be in such form as the Secretary may prescribe, that he has carried out the conservation practice or practices and has complied with all other requirements as conditions for such payments and that the statements and information contained in the application for payment are correct and true, to the best of his 62 Stat. 683. knowledge and belief, under the penalties of title 18, United States Code: Provided further, That none of the funds herein appropriated or made available for the functions assigned to the Agricultural Adjustment Agency pursuant to the Executive Order Numbered 9069, ^^50 USC app. 601 Qf February 23, 1942, shall be used to pay the salaries or expenses of any regional information employees or any State information {, X employees, but this shall not preclude the answering of inquiries or supplying of information at the county level to individual farmers: racticJ^^et^^"^ /*r<9VWec? further, That such amount shall be available for salaries and other administrative expenses in connection with the formulation and administration of the 1954 program of soil-building practices and soiland water-conserving practices, under the Act of February 29, 1936, as 49 Stat. 1148. 16 USC 5 90g- amended (amounting to $195,000,000, including administration, and 590q. " ' = formulated on the basis of a distribution of the funds available for • payments and grants among the several States in accordance with their conservation nefeds as determined by the Secretary, except that the proportion allocated to any State shall not be reduced more than 15 per centum from the distribution for the next preceding program year, and no participant shall receive more than $1,500); but the payments or grants under such programs shall be conditioned upon the utilization of land with respect to which such payments or grants are to be made in conformity with farming practices which will encourage and provide for soil-building and soil- and water-conserving practices in the ,, most practical and effective manner and adapted to conditions in the several States, as determined and approved by the State committees appointed pursuant to section 8(b) of the Soil Conservation and 49 Stat. 1150. Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 590h (b)), for the respective States: Provided further, That not to exceed 5 per centum of the allocation for the agricultural conservation program for any county may, on the recommendation of such county committee and approval of the State committee, be withheld and allotted to the Soil Conservation Service for services of its technicians in formulating and carrying out the agricultural conservation program in the participating counties, and the funds so allotted may be placed in a single account r.: for each State, and shall not be utilized by the Soil Conservation Service for any purpose other than technical and other assistance in Purchase ° ' such counties: Provided further. That such amounts shall be available seeds, etc. for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, lime, trees, or any other farming material, or any soil-terracing services, and making grants thereof to agricultural producers to aid them in carrying out farming practices approved by the Secretary under programs provided for herein: Salary or travel expenses, restric- Provided further, That no part of any funds available to the DeparttCon""^^' '""""" ment, or any bureau, office, corporation, or other agency constituting a part of such Department, shall be used in the current fiscal year for the payment of salary or travel expenses of any person who has been

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