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House Journal: Page 1640: Tuesday, April 18, 1995

 5   		$		626,630
 6     4.  SOIL CONSERVATION DIVISION
 7     a.  For salaries, support, maintenance, assistance
 8   to soil conservation districts, miscellaneous
 9   purposes, and for not more than the following full-
10   time equivalent positions:
11   		$		5,676,476
12   	 FTEs		177.30
13     (1)  Of the amount appropriated in this paragraph
14   "a", $330,000 shall be used to reimburse commissioners
15   of soil and water conservation districts for
16   administrative expenses.  Moneys used for the payment
17   of meeting dues by counties shall be matched on a
18   dollar-for-dollar basis by the soil conservation
19   division.
20     (2)  Of the amount appropriated and the number of
21   full-time equivalent positions allocated in this
22   paragraph "a", $165,000 and 6.50 FTEs shall be used to
23   provide that 13 part-time field office secretary I
24   positions are made full-time positions.  Of the amount
25   appropriated and the number of full-time equivalent
26   positions allocated in paragraph "a", $55,000 and 1
27   FTE shall be used to support a public service
28   executive I position in the field services section of
29   the division.
30     b.  To provide financial incentives for soil
31   conservation practices under chapter 161A:
32   			$	5,918,606
33     c.  The following requirements apply to the moneys
34   appropriated in paragraph "b":
35     (1)  Not more than 5 percent of the moneys
36   appropriated in paragraph "b" may be allocated for
37   cost sharing to abate complaints filed under section
38   161A.47.
39     (2)  Of the moneys appropriated in paragraph "b", 5
40   percent shall be allocated for financial incentives to
41   establish practices to protect watersheds above
42   publicly owned lakes of the state from soil erosion
43   and sediment as provided in section 161A.73.
44     (3)  Not more than 30 percent of a district's
45   allocation of moneys as financial incentives may be
46   provided for the purpose of establishing management
47   practices to control soil erosion on land that is row
48   cropped, including but not limited to no-till
49   planting, ridge-till planting, contouring, and contour
50   strip-cropping as provided in section 161A.73.

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 1     (4)  The state soil conservation committee created
 2   in section 161A.4 may allocate moneys to conduct
 3   research and demonstration projects to promote
 4   conservation tillage and nonpoint source pollution
 5   control practices.
 6     (5)  The financial incentive payments may be used
 7   in combination with department of natural resources

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