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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="8-701" title_number="8" title_name="Soil Conservation" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Cost Sharing -- Water Pollution Control">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Best management practice” means a conservation or pollution control practice that manages soil loss due to farming practices or manages nutrients, animal wastes, or agricultural chemicals so as to minimize movement into the surface waters of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Eligible cost” means a capital expenditure for installing, purchasing, or constructing a best management practice. It does not include the cost of land or interests in land, or the costs of operating or maintaining best management practices.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Fixed natural filter practice” means one of the following practices:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The planting of riparian forest buffers;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The planting of riparian herbaceous cover;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Tree plantings that are:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>On agricultural land; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Outside a riparian buffer;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Wetland restoration; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Pasture management, including rotational grazing systems such as:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Livestock fencing; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Watering systems implemented as part of the conversion of cropland to pasture.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation, trust, or other business enterprise which as an owner, landlord, or tenant, participates in the operation of a farm.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Pooling agreement” means a written agreement between persons, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, to perform best management practices and which is intended to solve a mutual pollution problem on different farms.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Project” means a project to prevent or control agriculturally related nonpoint source water pollution by establishing best management practices on a farm.</text>
  </level>
</section>
