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02166 - [A1432430] (t
[Review of Maintenance of Federally Assisted Conservation
Structures and Measures in Iowa]. CED-77-63; B-114833. May 17,
1977. 6 pp.
Repoct to Sen. Dick Clark; by Robert F. Keller, Acting
Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Land Use Planning and Control: Federal Programs
Concerning Non-public Lands and Related Resources (2307).
Contact: Commnity and Economic Development Div.
Budget Function: Nattral Resources, Environment, and Energy:
Conservation and Land Management (302).
Organizaticn Concerned: Department of Agriculture.
Congressional Relevance: Sen. Dick Clark.
Some conservation measures and ;tructures installed
with Federal cost-sharing assistance under the Department of
Agriculture's Agricultural Conservation Program have been
eliminated by the original or subsequent owners of the farm
properties. Findings/Conclusions: Visits to about 165 farms in
Iowa showed that some conservation practices had been eliminatel
or modified, but there did not appear to be a serious problem. A
sample of farms that had benefited from Federal cost-sharing
assistance in recent years for vegetative cover, liming, sod
waterways, or terraces, including nearly all the farm units that
had been sold to a new owner or operator after the specified
prautice was sold, was visited. Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service (ASCS) regulations require that a sample of
at least 5% of the conservation practices funded in the carrent
year are to be reviewed to estatlish whether they have been
installed and maintained. The regulations also require that,
when such reviews are made, all previous cost-shared practices
on the farm are to be checked te see that they are being
properly maintained. Review of the files at the LSCS offices in
three Iowa counties shoitcd that the files in two counties did
not identify any mainterance problems with the conservation
practices reviewed, while three cases where collection action is
being considered because vegetative cover was not maintained
were pending in the third county. (SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacfk0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)