B. TIME AND MANNER OF FILING APPLICATION AND INFORMATION

REQUIRED

Payment will be made only upon application submitted through the county office by March 31, 1941. The Secretary reserves the right (i) to withhold payment from any person who fails to file any form or furnish any information required on any farm which such person is operating or renting to another person for a share of the crops grown thereon, and (ii) to refuse to accept any application for payment if such application or any other form or information required is not submitted to the county office within the time fixed by the Director of the Southern Division. At least 2 weeks' notice to the public shall be given of the expiration of a time limit for filing prescribed forms. Such notice shall be given by mailing the same to the office of the county committee and making copies of the same available to the press.

C. APPLICATION FOR OTHER FARMS

If a person has the right to receive all or a portion of the crops, or proceeds there from, produced on more than one farm in a county and makes application for payment on one of such farms, such person must make application for payment on all such farms which he operates or rents to other persons. Upon request of the State committee, any person shall file with the committee such information as it may request regarding any other farm in the State from which he has the right to receive all or a portion of the crops, or proceeds thereof, or rents to another for cash.

Section 10.-APPEALS

Any person may, within 15 days after notice is forwarded to or made available to him, request the county committee in writing to reconsider its recommendation or determination with respect to any of the following matters respecting any farm in the operation of which he has an interest as landlord or tenant: (a) Eligibility to file an application for payment; (b) any allotment or goal; (c) the division of payment; or (d) any other matter affecting the right to or the amount of his payment with respect to the farm.

The county committee shall notify such person in writing of its decision within 15 days after receipt of such written request for reconsideration. If such person is dissatisfied with the decision of the county committee, he may appeal in writing to the State committee within 15 days after such decision is forwarded to or made available to him. The State committee shall notify such person in writing of its decision within 30 days after the receipt of the appeal. If such person is not satisfied with the decision of the State committee, he may, within 15 days after such decision is forwarded to or made available to him, request the Director of the Southern Division to review the decision of the State committee.

Written notice of any decision rendered under this section by the county or State committee shall also be issued to each person known to it who, as landlord or tenant, having an interest in the operation of the farm, may be adversely affected by such decision. Only a

person who shows that he is adversely affected by the outcome of any request for reconsideration or appeal may appeal the matter further, but any person who, as landlord or tenant, having an interest in the operation of the farm, would be affected by the decision to be made on any reconsideration by the county committee or subsequent appeal shall be given a full and fair hearing if he appears when the hearing thereon is held.

Section 11.-DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of the 1940 program

Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. Director of the Southern Division means the Director of the Southern Division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in charge of the 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program in the Southern Region.

Southern Region means the area included in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

State committee means the group of persons designated to assist in the administration of the 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program in Texas.

County committee means the group of persons elected within the county to assist in the administration of the 1940 program.

Person means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, estate, or trust, and wherever applicable, a State, a political subdivision of a State, or any agency thereof.

Landlord means a person who owns land and rents such land to another person or operates such land.

Tenant means a person who rents land from another person (for cash, a fixed commodity payment, or a share of the proceeds of the crops) and is entitled under a written or oral lease or agreement to receive all or a share of the proceeds of the crops produced thereon. Farm means all adjacent or nearby farm land under the same ownership which is operated by one person, including also:

(1) Any other adjacent or nearby farm land which the county committee, in accordance with instructions issued by the A. A. A., determines is operated by the same person as part of the same unit with respect to the rotation of crops and with workstock, farm machinery, and labor substantially separate from that for any other land; and

(2) Any field-rented tract (whether operated by the same or another person) which, together with any other land included in the farm, constitutes a unit with respect to the rotation of crops.

A farm shall be regarded as located in the county or administrative area, as the case may be, in which the principal dwelling is situated, or if there is no dwelling thereon, it shall be regarded as located in the county or administrative area, as the case may be, in which the major portion of the farm is located.

Cropland means farm land which in 1939 was tilled or was in regular rotation, excluding restoration land and any land which constitutes, or will constitute if such tillage is continued, a wind-erosion hazard to the community.

Restoration land means farm land which is subject to serious wind erosion and is unsuited to continued production of cultivated crops. which are cropped at least once since January 1, 1930, and which is

designated by the county committee as land on which, because of its physical condition and texture and because of climatic conditions, a permanent vegetative cover should be restored.

Noncrop open pasture means pasture land (other than rotation pasture land and range land) on which the predominant growth is forage suitable for grazing and on which the number or grouping of any trees or shrubs is such that the land could not fairly be considered as woodland.

General soil-depleting crops means all soil-depleting crops grown in the county other than wheat planted.

Section 12.-AUTHORITY, AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, AND APPLICABILITY

(1) Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Agriculture under sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and in connection with the effectuation of the purposes of section 7 (a) of said Act in 1940 payments and grants of aid will be made for participation in the Special 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program (herein referred to as the 1940 program) in accordance with the provisions of this bulletin and such modifications thereof or other provisions as may hereafter be made.

(2) The provisions of the 1940 program are necessarily subject to such legislation affecting said program as the Congress of the United States may hereafter enact; the making of the payments herein provided are contingent upon such appropriation as the Congress may hereafter provide for such purpose; and the amount of such pay ments will necessarily be within the limits finally determined by such appropriation, the final estimate of payments which would be made under the Special 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program, and the extent of participation therein. As an adjustment for participation, the rates of payment and deduction specified herein may be increased or decreased by as much as 10 percent.

(3) The provisions of the Special 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program (except sec. 8 (b)) are not applicable to (1) counties other than Dallas, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley, Moore, Oldham, and Sherman, and (2) land in which the beneficial ownership is in the United States.

Issued February 28, 1940, with the approval of the Administrator.

I. W. DUGGAN,

Director, Southern Division.