§ 701.47 - Program availability.

(a) The county committee may implement the program subject to the availability of funds where new conservation problems have been created on farmland by a natural disaster or wind erosion which, if not treated; will:

(1) Impair or endanger the land or water resource.

(2) Materially affects the productive capacity of the land or water resource.

(3) Represent damage which is unusual in character and, except for wind erosion, shall not be the type that would recur frequently in the same area.

(4) Be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use.

(b) Subject to the availability of funds, the county committee with the concurrence of the State committee and approval of the Deputy Administrator, State and County Operations may implement the program to carry out emergency water conservation and water enhancement measures during periods of severe drought.