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 99 STAT. 1510

Prohibition. Forests and forest products.

PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985 legumes, forbs, shrubs, or trees, substantially in accordance with a schedule outlined in the plan; (2) to place highly erodible cropland subject to the contract in the conservation reserve established under this subtitle; (3) not to use such land for agricultural purposes, except as permitted by the Secretary; (4) to establish approved vegetative cover on such land; (5) on the violation of a term or condition of the contract at any time the owner or operator has control of such land— (A) to forfeit all rights to receive rental payments and cost sharing payments under the contract and to refund to the Secretary any rental payments and cost sharing payments received by the owner or operator under the contract, together with interest thereon as determined by the Secretary, if the Secretary, after considering the recommendations of the soil conservation district and the Soil Conservation Service, determines that such violation is of such nature as to warrant termination of the contract; or (B) to refund to the Secretary, or accept adjustments to, the rental payments and cost sharing payments provided to the owner or operator, as the Secretary considers appropriate, if the Secretary determines that such violation does not warrant termination of the contract; (6) on the transfer of the right and interest of the owner or operator in land subject to the contract— (A) to forfeit all rights to rental payments and cost sharing payments under the contract; and (B) to refund to the United States all rental payments and cost sharing payments received by the owner or operator, or accept such payment adjustments or make such refunds as the Secretary considers appropriate and consistent with the objectives of this subtitle, unless the tremsferee of such land agrees with the Secretary to assume all obligations of the contract; (7) not to conduct any harvesting or grazing, nor otherwise make commercial use of the forage, on land that is subject to the contract, nor adopt any similar practice specified in the contract by the Secretary as a practice that would tend to defeat the purposes of the contract, except that the Secretary may permit harvesting or grazing or other commercial use of the forage on land that is subject to the contract in response to a drought or other similar emergency; (8) not to conduct any planting of trees on land that is subject to the Contract unless the contract specifies that the harvesting ^^^ commercial sale of trees such as Christmas trees are prohibited, nor otherwise make commercial use of trees on land that is subject to the contract unless it is expressly permitted in the contract, nor adopt any similar practice specMed in the contract by the Secretary as a practice that would tend to defeat the purposes of the contract, except that no contract shall prohibit activities consistent with customary forestry practice, such as pruning, thinning, or stand improvement of trees, on lands converted to forestry use; (9) not to adopt any practice specified by the Secretary in the contract as a practice that would tend to defeat the purposes of this subtitle; and

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