Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§3272 Cooperative assistance to State and other public agencies; types of assistance; private engineering services

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 40— - SOIL INFORMATION ASSISTANCE FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT › § 3272

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must help States and other public agencies get soil surveys when they ask. This help is meant to help with community planning, protecting and improving the environment, recreation, conserving land and water, using resources in different ways, and stopping pollution from sediment and other pollutants in fast-changing farm and nonfarm areas. Through cooperative agreements with the requesting State or agency, the Secretary must provide four kinds of help: studies and reports to classify and explain soils; stronger use of the National Cooperative Soil Survey; technical help to use the surveys; and coordination with other federal agencies.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §3272

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In order to provide soil surveys to assist States, their political subdivisions, soil and water conservation districts, towns, cities, planning boards and commissions, community development districts, and other public agencies in community planning and resource development for the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment, recreational development, the conservation of land and water resources, the development of multiple uses of such resources, and the control and prevention of pollution from sediment and other pollutants in areas of rapidly changing uses, including farm and nonfarm areas, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, upon the request of a State or other public agency, provide by means of such cooperative arrangements with the State or other public agency as he may deem advisable, the following assistance with respect to such areas and purposes:

(1)the making of studies and reports necessary for the classification and interpretation of kinds of soil;

(2)an intensification of the use and benefits of the National Cooperative Soil Survey;

(3)the furnishing of technical and other assistance needed for use of soil surveys; and

(4)consultation with other Federal agencies participating or assisting in the planning and development of such areas in order to assure the coordination of the work under this chapter with the related work of such other agencies.

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42 U.S.C. § 3272

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73