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16 U.S.C. § 590a

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United States · Title 16 — CONSERVATION · Status: effective

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16 U.S.C. § 590a, Purpose, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/445907
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It is recognized that the wastage of soil and moisture resources on farm, grazing, and forest lands of the Nation, resulting from soil erosion, is a menace to the national welfare and that it is declared to be the policy of Congress to provide permanently for the control and prevention of soil erosion to preserve soil, water, and related resources, promote soil and water quality, control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs, and maintain the navigability of rivers and harbors, protect public health, public lands and relieve unemployment, and the Secretary of Agriculture, from now on, shall coordinate and direct all activities with relation to soil erosion and in order to effectuate this policy is authorized, from time to time—

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