---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1466.40"
title: "7"
number: "1466.40"
heading: "High priority areas."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1466.40"
---

# §1466.40. High priority areas.

- (a) The Chief shall, in consultation with the State Technical Committee, develop a set of high priority areas for each State.
- (b) The set of high priority areas described in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section must encompass every region within the State.
- (c) A high priority area may encompass an entire State or overlap with other high priority areas such that a given parcel of land may exist in multiple high priority areas.
- (d) The Chief, in consultation with the State Technical Committee, shall identify up to three priority resource concerns for each land use within a given high priority area.
- (e) An identification under [paragraph (d)](#d) of this section of a priority resource concern for one land use shall not preclude NRCS from identifying the same priority resource concern for a different land use within the same high priority area.
- (f) NRCS shall identify which practices qualify as incentive practices for each land use within each high priority area based on the priority resource concern(s) identified for that land use.
- (g) NRCS shall make public all determinations made under this section.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 714b and 714c; and 16 U.S.C. 3839aa—3839-8.

### Source

Source: 84 FR 69280, Dec. 17, 2019, unless otherwise noted.