Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: July 5, 2024) |
Title 7 - Agriculture |
Subtitle B - Regulations of the Department of Agriculture |
Chapter XIV - Commodity Credit Corporation, Department of Agriculture |
SubChapter B - Loans, Purchases, and Other Operations |
Part 1466 - Environmental Quality Incentives Program |
Subpart A - General Provisions |
§ 1466.5 - Outreach activities.
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§ 1466.5 Outreach activities.
NRCS will establish programin order(a) NRCS conducts outreach activities at the national, State, Tribal, and local levels
andto ensure that producers whose land has environmental problems
Special outreach will be madeor priority resource concerns are aware and informed that they may be eligible to apply for program assistance.
or(b) NRCS will make special outreach to eligible producers with historically low participation rates, including but not restricted to, limited resource, socially disadvantaged, small-scale,
beginning farmers or ranchers, veteran farmers or ranchers, Indian Tribes, Alaska Natives, and Pacific Islanders.
so as not(c) NRCS provides outreach
limitto
because ofensure producer participation
,is not limited based on the size or type of operation
or production system, including small-scale, specialty crop, and organic production.
(d) NRCS will notify historically underserved producers, at the time of enrollment in the program, of the option to receive advance payments under § 1466.24 of this part and document the election of each of these producers.