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Practices for abatement of both water and air pollution will deal with a problem of increasing national concern. All state and county ASC Committees have been asked to call ACP development meetings to submit recommendations for pollution-abatement practices. The State ASC Committee will hold part of its ACP fund in reserve for these measures.
Mr. Barksdale also mentioned that the ACP fund reserve includes money for special ACP projects. “Special projects are designed to help an entire rural community through farmer-community conservation planning and action where unity is needed to solve a major problem.”
Most farmers are well aware of the value of conservation work on thfeir farms and the part ACP can play. It is hoped the general public would come to be as interested. “It’s everybody’s tax money that is used for ACP. We would like everybody to know ACP is administered with the interest of the public in mind.”
Under ACP the Federal Government shares with fanners and ranchers the cost of installing conservation measures on agricultural lands. A principal requirement is that conservation benefits must accrue in the public interest.
Generally the Government shares about half the cost of the approved conservation measures, but low-income farmers may be eligible to receive up to 80 per cent of the total cost.
In 1968 more than 951,000 farms installed conservation practices under ACP. The average Federal assistance per farm was $210.
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