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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 58 — Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation and Reserve Program

§ 3824. Fairness of compliance

Statutory text

If the actions of an unrelated person or public entity, outside the control of, and without the prior approval of, the landowner or tenant result in a change in the characteristics of cropland that would cause the land to be determined to be a wetland, the affected land shall not be considered to be wetland for purposes of this subchapter.

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.

  1. Food Security Act of 1985

    Pub. L. 99–198 title XII § 1224 · 99 Stat. 1354

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 3824

    (Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1224, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XIV, § 1424, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3576.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1224, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XIV, § 1424, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3576.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–198, title XII, § 1224, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XIV, § 1424, , 104 Stat. 3576.)

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