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Fart Z [ail Spey Land ClassitTra #ion and InterpretativI C7roup� 622 <br />ExUbi# 6. - 1 Final Rule, Prime -annd Unique Farmlands. <br />Federal Register, Volume 43, No, 21, January 31, 1978. <br />Fay 657 - Prime and Unique Farmlands <br />.Subpart A - Important Farmlands Inventory <br />Section 657.1 Purpose. <br />S'ecdDn 657.2 Podic . <br />Section 657.3 AppiicubWi , <br />Sect 657.4 SE'S Responsibilities. <br />Section 657.5 Identa tc don of irnzportrnt farmlands. <br />A tthmiry: 16 U.S.C. 59C f, q; 7CFR 2.62, Pub. L. 95 - 87; 42 U.S. C. 4321 er ,seq. <br />657.1 Purpose. <br />SCS is concerned about any action that terids to impair the productive capacity of American agriculture. <br />The Nation needs to know the extent and location of the best land for producing fool, feud, fiber, forage, <br />and oilseed crops. In addition to prime and unique farmlands, farrrilan_ds [lint are of statewide and local <br />importance for producing these crops also n. -ed to be identified. <br />657.2 policy. <br />It is SCS policy to make and keep current an inventory of the prime farmland and unique farrr lnnd of <br />the Nation. This inventory is to be carrW out in cooperation with other interested agencies at the National, <br />Stage, and local levels of goverment. The objective of the inventory is to identify the extent and location <br />of important rural lands noeded to produce food, feed, fiber, forage, and oiseed crops. <br />657.3 Applicability. <br />Invmtories made under this memorandum do not constitute a designation of any land area to a specific <br />land use. Such designations are the responsibility of appropriate local and State officials. <br />657.4 SCS Responsibilities. <br />(a) Slate Conservationist. Each SCS state: conservationist is to: <br />(1) Provide leadership for inventories of important farmlands for the state, county, or other <br />subdivision of the state. Each is to want with the appropriate agencies: of stag govennrnent and others to <br />establish priorities for making these inventories. <br />(2) Identify the soil mapping units within the state that qualify as prime farmland. In doing this, <br />state conservationists, in consultation with the cooperators of the National Cooporative Soil Survey, have <br />the flexibility to make local deviation from the permeability criterion or to be inure resariative for other <br />specific criteria in order to assure the most accurate identification of prime famt ands for a state. Each is to <br />invite representatives o the governor's office, agorlcies of the state government, and others to identify <br />farmlands of statewide itttportance and unique fasa lands that are to be inventar'ied within the fr rnework of <br />this memorandum. <br />(430- VI-NSSl i, Nov, 1993) <br />