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DEVELOPMENT o£ the 1974 Rural Environmental Conservation Program (RECP) in Virginia will get under way' immediately, according to officials of the .-State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS).
Virginia ASCS officials 'have just returned from Washington, D. C. where they met with Washington officials to learn details of this new conservation costsharing program.
At the meeting they were told it is essential each State develop an RECP that “will strengthen conservation and environmental protection measures on American farms, and encourage the development, management, and protection of non-industrial private forest land.” Discussion leader for the conference was Ray Hunter, Director of the ASCS Environmental Quality Land Use Division.
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