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PUBLIC LAW 86-532-JUNE 29, 1960

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GREAT Jt>LAii\S CONSERVATION PROGRAM

70 Stat. 1115.

For necessary expenses to carry into effect a program of conservation in the Great Plains area, pursuant to section 16(b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as added by the Act of August 7, 1956 (16 U.S.C. 590p), $10,000,000, to remain available until expended. AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM SERVICE AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM

For necessary expenses to carry into effect the program authorized in sections 7 to 15,16(a), and 17 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, approved February 29, 1936, as amended (16 U.S.C. 49 Stat. 1148. 590g-590(o), 590p(a), and 590q), including not to exceed $6,000 for the preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at State, interstate, and international fairs within the United States, $242,000,000, to remain available until December 31 of the next succeeding fiscal year for compliance with the program of soil-building and soil- and water-conserving practices authorized under this head in the Department of Agriculture and F a r m Credit Administration 73 Stat. 171. Appropriation Act, 1960, carried out during the period July 1, 1959, to December 31, 1960, inclusive: Provided, That not to exceed $26,832,950 of the total sum provided under this head shall be available during the current fiscal year for administrative expenses for carrying out such program, the cost of aerial photographs, however, not to be charged to such limitation; but not more than $5,458,900 shall be transferred to the appropriation account "Administrative expenses, "ul*c*i3^92 section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938": Provided further, That none of the funds herein appropriated shall be used to pay the salaries or expenses of any regional information employees or any State information employees, but this shall not preclude the answering of inquiries or supplying of information at the county level to individual farmers: Provided further, That such amounts shall be available for administrative expenses in connection with the formulation and administration of the 1961 program of soil-building and soil- and water-conserving practices, under the Act of February 16 ^u^sc^^s^lo - ^^' 1^^^' ^^ amended (amounting to $250,000,000, including adminis590q. ^" tration, and no participant shall receive more than $2,500, except where the participants from two or more farms or ranches join to carry out approved practices designed to conserve or improve the agricultural resources of the community): Provided further, That no change shall be made in such 1961 program which will have the effect in any county of restricting eligibility requirements or costsharing on practices included in either the 1958 or the 1959 programs, unless such change shall have been recommended by the county committee and approved by the State committee: Provided further, That the proportion of the State fund initially allocated to any county for the 1961 program shall not be reduced from the distribution of such funds for the 1959 program year: Provided further. That not to exceed 5 per centum of the allocation for the 1961 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 shall not be utilized by the Soil Onservation Service for any purpose other than technical and other assistance in such counties, and in addition, on the recommenda-

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