Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 58 — Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation and Reserve Program
§ 3813. Soil surveys
Statutory text
The Secretary shall, as soon as is practicable after , complete soil surveys on those private lands that do not have a soil survey suitable for use in determining the land capability class for purposes of this subchapter. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall, insofar as possible, concentrate on those localities where significant amounts of highly erodible land are being converted to the production of agricultural commodities.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Food Security Act of 1985
Pub. L. 99–198 title XII § 1214 · 99 Stat. 1354
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 3813
Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1214, formerly § 1213, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1507
Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1214, formerly § 1213, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1507Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1213. soil suveys The Secretary shall, as soon as is practicable after the 16 USC 3813. date of enactment of this Act, complete soil surveys on those private lands that do not have a soil survey suitable for use in determining the land capability class for purposes of this subtitle. In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall, insofar as possible, concentrate on those localities where significant amounts of highly erodible land are being converted to the production of agricultural commodities.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
1985–1996 · 2 acts
- 1985Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1214, formerly § 1213, , 99 Stat. 1507
- 1996renumbered § 1214, Pub. L. 104–127, title III, § 315(a)(1), , 110 Stat. 983.
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(Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1214, formerly § 1213, , 99 Stat. 1507; renumbered § 1214, Pub. L. 104–127, title III, § 315(a)(1), , 110 Stat. 983.)