---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 622.31"
title: "7"
number: "622.31"
heading: "Basic planning efforts."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/622.31"
---

# §622.31. Basic planning efforts.

- (a) Upon receipt of an application, the NRCS will make any necessary field studies and develop a report to justify the need for planning effort. Once planning is authorized by the Chief of NRCS, a watershed plan-environmental impact statement (plan-EIS) or a watershed plan-environmental assessment (plan-EA) will be prepared by NRCS to request funding. This effort must be coordinated with other State and Federal agencies.
- (b) The Chief of NRCS may waive the watershed plan for works of improvement if the Chief determines that—
  - (1) The watershed plan is unnecessary or duplicative; and
  - (2) **The works of improvement are otherwise consistent with applicable requirements under this part.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 6078, Feb. 17, 1984, as amended at 84 FR 19702, May 6, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1001-1012a, and 33 U.S.C. 701b-1.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 6078, Feb. 17, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 6078, Feb. 17, 1984, as amended at 84 FR 19702, May 6, 2019]