Agricultural programs & laws

Agricultural programs & laws

Of or pertaining to laws, political programs or schemes related to agriculture.

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Watershed and Flood Prevention Act of 1954

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

P.L. 83-566 (August 4, 1954) established USDA's small watershed programme administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service; purposes of projects built under this authority include flood ...

Watershed

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

The total land area, regardless of size, above a given point on a waterway that contributes runoff water to the flow at that point. A major subdivision of a drainage basin. the United States is ...

Units of the National Wildlife Refuge System. They may be designated under general authorities of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered Species Act, or (rarely) by specific acts of Congress. ...

Wildlife Habitat Incentives programme

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

A programme established by the FAIR Act of 1996 to promote voluntary implementation of on-farm management practises to improve wildlife habitat. Landowner activities under this programme implement a ...

WIC vouchers

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Food instruments commonly issued by WIC agencies to participants that are used in grocery and other authorised food stores to buy certain quantities and types of foods listed on the coupon, which are ...

Wilderness

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

An area of federal land, usually 5,000 acres or more, where the impact of man is largely unnoticeable, and which has been designated as wilderness by Congress.

Waters of the United States

Agriculture; Agricultural programs & laws

Defined broadly by the Army Corps of Engineers in enforcing §404 to include all of the navigable waters in the United States and the adjacent wetlands.