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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3B — Soil Conservation

§ 590n. Payments reviewable only by Secretary

Statutory text

The facts constituting the bases for any payment or grant or the amount thereof authorized to be made under section 590g of this title, when officially determined in conformity with rules or regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be reviewable only by the Secretary of Agriculture.

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. Pub. L. 74–85 § 14 · 49 Stat. 163

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 590n

    Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 14, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1151

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 14, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1151

  2. Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

    Pub. L. 104–127 title III § 336(a)(1)(C) · 110 Stat. 888

    1. Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 590n

      Pub. L. 104–127 struck out “or 590h” after “section 590g”

    2. Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 590n

      Pub. L. 104–127 struck out at end “Payments to claimants under sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j to 590q, inclusive, of this title may be made upon the certificate of the claimant, which certificate shall be in such form as the Secretary of Agriculture 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 knowledge and belief, under the penalties of title 18.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–127 struck out “or 590h” after “section 590g” and struck out at end “Payments to claimants under sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j to 590q, inclusive, of this title may be made upon the certificate of the claimant, which certificate shall be in such form as the Secretary of Agriculture 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 knowledge and belief, under the penalties of title 18.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (C) Section 14 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act ( 16 U.S.C. 590n) is amended— (i) in the first sentence, by striking “or 8”; and (ii) by striking the second sentence.

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1956–1996 · 2 rounds

1996

Pub. L. 104–127 struck out “or 590h” after “section 590g” and struck out at end “Payments to claimants under sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j to 590q, inclusive, of this title may be made upon the certificate of the claimant, which certificate shall be in such form as the Secretary of Agriculture 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 knowledge and belief, under the penalties of title 18.”

1956

Act , inserted provisions relating to payments to be made to claimant upon his certificate, and form of such certificate.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions respecting lands under jurisdiction of Department of the Interior, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 590a of this title.

Credits

1935–1996 · 3 acts
  1. 1935Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 14, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1151
  2. 1956amended Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 950, § 6(a), 70 Stat. 1033
  3. 1996Pub. L. 104–127, title III, § 336(a)(1)(C), , 110 Stat. 1005.
Show as published

(Apr. 27, 1935, ch. 85, § 14, as added Feb. 29, 1936, ch. 104, § 1, 49 Stat. 1151; amended Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 950, § 6(a), 70 Stat. 1033; Pub. L. 104–127, title III, § 336(a)(1)(C), , 110 Stat. 1005.)

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