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Show Plan To Rehabilitate Lands Damaged By Recent Floods En 17 , - Counties Announced by SS8 And FMA A program to restore and rehabilitate re-habilitate agricultural lands damaged by recent floods in seventeen counties in Utah will go into effect immediately, J. Vern Hopkin, chairman of the Utah State PMA Committee,, and J. A. Libby, state conservationist conserva-tionist for the Soil Conservation Service, jointly announced today. to-day. Thousands of acres of the State's most productive farm lands were directly damaged by the floods. This emergency program pro-gram to help farmers restore these lands, as a means of helping help-ing to assure the good health and economic well-being of the American people, was made possible pos-sible by a special Congressional appropriation approved recently by the President, Messrs Hop-kin Hop-kin and Libby explained. The counties designated as disaster areas for purposes of this program pro-gram are: Beaver, Box Elder, Cache; Carbon, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Juab, Morgan, Rich. Salt Lake, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Sum-mit, Uintah, Utah and Weber. Of the total funds available to the Department of Agricul ture, an amount will be allocated allo-cated to the Production and Marketing Administration for on-farm measures to be carried out by farmers under the Agricultural Agri-cultural Conservation Program, and to the Soil Conservation Service for engineering and other oth-er technical help on farm land. Since the degree of damage varies by farm and by areas and the cost of restoring acres to productivity depends on the type of restoration measures needed, program assistance wiU be offered on the basis of individual indi-vidual f3rm needs. Rates of assistance as-sistance will not exceed 80 of the average cost of carrying out the practices. On-farm practices for which payments will be made will include in-clude clearing debris; cleaning out, repairing, or replacing closed clos-ed -and open drainage systems; leveling for filling holes or gullies gul-lies caused by flood; replacing and repairing fences necessary for proper land use; applyine minerals for establishment of pasture, hay or forage crops; planting or replanting pastures, hay and emergency forage crops; replacing or repairing erosioi control structures such as dams, dykes, revetments, rip-rarj. out-Jet out-Jet flumes. et; rehabilitating c-tock watering facilities; special tillage of silted rid waterlogged land: and "rebabilitat'on of frrn irrigation systems through lev-plinf. lev-plinf. constructing dams or reservoirs, res-ervoirs, ditches, etc Additional funds will alo h made available to the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service for work in restoring channel capacity in tributary stream channels and waterways affecting more than individual farms. Off-farm emergency flood projects pro-jects undertaken by the Soil Conservation Service will include in-clude cleaning tributary streams of sediment and debris left by flood waters to prevent further overflow of water on adjoining lands; cleaning and rebuilding minor drainage ditches and outlets; out-lets; building levees, dykes and barriers needed to return the stream flow to original channels; chan-nels; installing emergency stream bank protection works and stabilizing structures to prevent pre-vent growth of major gullies or trenches formed during the flood, and similar activities that affect the farms in small watersheds water-sheds and drainage areas. Farmers in the flood-damaged areas who are in need of assistance assist-ance for carrying out such practices prac-tices should apply to county PMA offices or to local offices of the Soil Conservation Service. |
