---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3273"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3273"
heading: "Contributions of State or other public agencies toward cost of soil surveys"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3273"
units:
  - "Chapter 40 — Soil Information Assistance for Community Planning and Resource Development"
---

# §3273. Contributions of State or other public agencies toward cost of soil surveys


It is further the sense of the Congress that the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall make a reasonable effort to assure that the contributions of any [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) or other [public agency](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) under any cooperative agreement which may be entered into between the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) and such [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) or other [public agency](/usc/42/11851.md?p=8) with respect to a soil survey shall be a substantial portion of the cost of such soil survey.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–560, § 3, Sept. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 706.)