Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§3271 Availability of soil surveys under soil survey program
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 40— - SOIL INFORMATION ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT › § 3271
Summary
Congress says the USDA should run its soil survey program so states and public agencies can get soil surveys for community planning and resource development. These surveys should help protect the environment, support recreation, conserve land and water, allow multiple uses, and cut pollution from sediment and other sources where land use is changing fast, like farmland becoming industry or housing.
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Title 42, §3271
The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
In recognition of the increasing need for soil surveys by the States and other public agencies in connection with community planning and resource development for protecting and improving the quality of the environment, meeting recreational needs, conserving land and water resources, providing for multiple uses of such resources, and controlling and reducing pollution from sediment and other pollutants in areas of rapidly changing uses, including farmlands being shifted to other uses, resulting from rapid expansions in the uses of land for industry, housing, transportation, recreation, and related services, it is the sense of Congress that the soil survey program of the United States Department of Agriculture should be conducted so as to make available soil surveys to meet such needs of the States and other public agencies in connection with community planning and resource development.
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42 U.S.C. § 3271
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73