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where they are essential to combat adverse environmental conditions such as water pollution from contaminated water runoff caused by high water table, or incomplete recycling of animal or human waste, sedimentation, and salinity or alkalinity; and (2) use of conservation tillage on a demonstration basis to reduce soil loss from land devoted to intertilled (row) crops.

Also, the 1973 REAP expands the authority to costshare for practices to solve agriculture-related air pollution problems. In the past, cost-sharing for pollution abatement was limited to those practices with soil and water conservation benefits.

County committees will develop their 1973 programs within national program guidelines and will have opportunity to keep some or all of their 1970 county practices as was the case for 1971 and 1972.

The following conservation and environmental protection features'will receive high priority during the coming year:

Establishing permanent vegetative cover; improving or protecting perman

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