Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 6.djvu/121

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PUBLIC LAW 102-575—OCT. 30, 1992 106 STAT. 4679 Public information. (d) The Secretary of Agriculture shall offer crops grown under the Demonstration Program for sale to the highest bidder under terms and conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary. Any crops not sold shall be disposed of as the Secretary determines to be appropriate, except that no crop may be given away to any forprofit entity or farm op<irator. All receipts from crop sales shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of the fund from which appropriations for the conduct of the Demonstration Program are derived. (e) The land from each ownership in a study site shall be established by the Secretary as a separate farm. The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide for lessors to preserve the cropland base and history on lands leased to the Demonstration Project under the same terms and conditions provided for under section 1236(b) of the Food Scscurity Act of 1985 (7 U.S.C. 3836(b)). Establishment of such study site farms shall not entitle the Secretary to participate in farm programs or to build program base. (f) The Secretary shall periodically, but not less often than Reports once a year, report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives, and to the (governor of South Daikota concerning the activities undertaken pursuant to this section. The Secretary's reports and other information aiiid data developed pursuant to this section shall be available to the public without charge. Each Demonstration Program report, including the report referred to in paragraph (3) of this subsection, shall evaluate data covering the results of the Demonstration Program as carried out on the six study sites during the period covered by the report together with data developed under the wetlands enhancement aspect during that period. The demonstration phase of the Demonstration Program shall terminate at the conclusion of the fifth full irrigation season. Promptly thereafter, the Secretary shall: (1) remove temporary facilities and equipment and restore the study sites as nearly as practicable to their prelease condition. The Secretary may transfer the pumping plant and/or distribution lines to public agencies for uses other than commercial irrigation if so doing would be less costly than removing such equipment; (2) otherwise wind up the Demonstration Program; and (3) prepare, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, a concluding report and recommendations covering the entire demonstration phase, which report shall be transmitted by the Secretary to the Congress and to the Governor of South Dakota not later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the demonstration phase of the Demonstration Program terminates. The Secretary's concluding report, together with other information and data developed in the course of the Demonstration Program, shall be available to the public without charge. (g) Costs of the Demonstration Program funded by Congressional appropriations shall be accounted for pursuant to the Act of October 29, 1971 (85 Stat. 416). Coste incurred by the State of South Dakota and any agencies thereof arising out of consultation and participation in the Demonstration Program shall not be reimbursed by the United States. Reports. ^ i--.