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9-8A-9
Section 9-8A-9 Cost-share grant processing procedures. Applicants for cost-share grants for
soil and water conservation practices shall complete and submit an application for allocated
funds as described herein to the soil and water conservation district office located in their
counties. Assistance in completing the form shall be made available from technical personnel
of the soil and water conservation district office. Applicants shall specify the anticipated
total cost of the practice to be implemented and the percentage, if any, of such cost which
the applicant proposes to bear, which percentage shall not be less than the minimum specified
by the commission for cost-share grants to assist in implementation of the particular practice.
Applications for allocated funds which are denied by the soil and water conservation district
supervisors shall be retained in the district to the end of the program year. Written notification
of the denial shall be provided to the applicant along with...
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9-8A-5
Section 9-8A-5 Allocation of funds to soil and water conservation districts. (a) Funds allocated
to the soil and water conservation districts by the commission shall be used only to pay the
costs of installing soil and water conservation practices of the types listed in Section 9-8A-7.
Soil and water conservation district supervisors shall designate which soil and water conservation
practices will be eligible for cost-share grants in their district, subject to approval by
the Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission. The commission, through the State
Soil and Water Conservation Committee, may allocate any available appropriations and other
moneys received by the commission for cost-share grants to the soil and water conservation
districts in steps identified as original allocation, reversion of allocated funds, and reallocation
of reverted funds. (b) Original allocation. The commission may allocate funds to the state's
soil and water conservation districts at the beginning...
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9-8A-11
Section 9-8A-11 Agreement to maintain conservation practices; sale of land with respect to
which agreement is in effect. As a condition for receipt of a cost-share grant of allocated
funds for soil and water conservation practices, the eligible person receiving the benefit
of such grant shall agree to maintain those practices for the expected life of the practice
as established by the commission and outlined in the applicable conservation plan. Agreement
to maintain practices for which allocated funds are being paid shall be accomplished by completing
and signing a maintenance agreement. Specific conditions of the maintenance agreement shall
be detailed on a form specified by the commission, and may include provisions for repayment
of cost-share grants. Completion of the form and signature of the eligible person is required
prior to transfer of the payment from the district to the recipient. Agreements to perform
soil and water conservation practices for which allocated funds are being...
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9-8A-1
Section 9-8A-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein
otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) ALLOCATED FUNDS. That portion of the
funds appropriated to the commission that are allocated by the commission to the soil and
water conservation district in each county of the state. (2) AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS. Bonds
or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States of America or the state, or interest
bearing bank and savings and loan association deposits or obligations, obligations of any
agency of the United States of America, any obligations in which a state chartered savings
and loan association may invest its funds, any agreement to repurchase any of the foregoing,
or any thereof. (3) COMMISSION. The Alabama Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission
organized pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of Alabama...
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9-8A-6
Section 9-8A-6 Application for cost-share grant. In order to qualify for a cost-share grant,
an eligible person shall file, accompanied by the applications specified in this section,
a conservation plan approved by the soil and water conservation district in which the eligible
person's eligible land is located. Cost-share grants shall be available only with respect
to those soil and water conservation practices determined to be needed by the soil conservation
district to reduce erosion, improve agricultural water quality and improve forest resources
in the district. Such determination of need shall be made by a qualified soil and water conservation
or forestry technician. All application forms and agreements for allocated funds shall be
available from and completed forms shall be submitted to the local soil and water conservation
district office located in the county where such practices are proposed to be implemented.
If an applicant's land is in more than one soil and water...
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9-8A-4
Section 9-8A-4 Commission - Powers. The commission shall have the following powers: (1) To
have succession by its corporate name until it shall have been dissolved as provided herein;
(2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the
subject matter and of the parties thereof; (3) To adopt and use a seal and to alter the seal
at pleasure; (4) To designate and maintain a principal office in the City of Montgomery; (5)
To adopt, and from time to time amend and repeal, bylaws and rules and regulations, not inconsistent
with this chapter, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the commission in the conduct
of its business; (6) To allocate funds through the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee
to the soil and water conservation districts of the state for use by them in making cost-share
grants and approving technical assistance to eligible persons as provided herein; (7) To appoint,
employ, contract with, and provide for the...
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9-8A-12
Section 9-8A-12 Reporting and accounting by soil and water conservation districts. Since appropriations
made by the Legislature to the commission are anticipated to be made to the commission with
respect to each fiscal year, each soil and water conservation district committee will maintain
separate control ledgers and prepare separate reports of work accomplished with allocated
funds for each fiscal year. The district supervisor will submit a monthly report to the State
Soil and Water Conservation Committee indicating the unobligated balance of allocated funds
as shown on each ledger at the close of the last day of each month. Quarterly compilation
of the reports shall be submitted by the state to the commission. The districts will also
submit through the state committee an annual progress report to the commission. These reports
will reflect accomplishments "to date" by program year funds. Annual reports shall
be submitted to the commission on or before November 4 each year. Each...
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9-8A-7
Section 9-8A-7 Eligible soil and water conservation practices. The following soil and water
conservation practices shall be eligible for cost-share grants of the allocated funds: (1)
REDUCED TILLAGE SYSTEMS. Reduced tillage practices, used in conjunction with row crop production
to reduce sediment damage and soil depletion caused by wind or water, including planting of
seasonal noncash cover crops. (2) NO-TILL SYSTEMS. A form of noninversion tillage that retains
protective amounts of residue on the surface throughout the year. (3) CRITICAL AREA PLANTINGS.
stablishment of vegetative planting to control sediment movement from severely eroding areas
by stabilizing the soil. These plantings would include vegetation such as trees, shrubs, vines,
grasses or legumes. (4) DIVERSIONS. A channel with a supporting ridge on the lower side constructed
across the slope to conduct excess runoff water to a suitable outlet. (5) FIELD WINDBREAKS.
A strip or belt of trees or shrubs established within or...
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22-38-2
Section 22-38-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases
shall have the following meaning: (1) COMMITTEE. The Alabama State Soil and Water Conservation
Committee. (2) COST-SHARE FUNDS or COST-SHARE GRANTS. Any federal financial assistance for
landusers received by the department or other state agencies to support implementation of
agricultural nonpoint source pollution control. Such funds shall include federal match and
nonfederal match funds. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
(4) LANDUSER. Any person, individual, partnership, company, corporation or other legal entity
who qualifies for the receipt of cost-share funds from the Alabama state soil and water conservation
committee in accordance with all applicable rules, regulations or practices. (5) PLAN. The
state nonpoint source management program for the control of discharges of pollution from nonpoint
sources to waters of the state and for improving the quality of...
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22-22-9
Section 22-22-9 Powers and duties; enforcement of orders; permits; civil penalties for violations.
(a) It shall be the duty of the commission to control pollution in the waters of the state,
and it shall specifically have the following powers: (1) To study and investigate all problems
concerned with the improvement and conservation of the waters of the state; (2) To conduct,
independently and in cooperation with others, studies, investigation and research and to prepare,
or in cooperation with others prepare, a program or programs, any or all of which shall pertain
to the purity and conservation of the waters of the state or to the treatment and disposal
of pollutants or other wastes, which studies, investigations, research and program or programs
shall be intended to result in the reduction of pollution of the waters of the state according
to the conditions and particular circumstances existing in the various communities throughout
the state; and (3) To propose remedial measures...
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