Land use study approved
• LANCASTER - The
Lancaster County Com
missioners and the directors
of the Lancaster Con
servation District have
formally requested the
participation of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service in
a study of Lancaster
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County’s land and water
resources.
The proposed study would
culminate investigations
undertaken by the Land Use
Committee of the Lancaster
Association of Commerce
and Industry during the past
year. The Land Use Com
mittee, recognizing that the
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limited resources in Lan
caster County are subject to
demands from a number of
competitive uses, believes
that additional information
regarding agricultural
requirements, relative to
those of other legitimate
uses, is needed to assist in
long-range planning for the
County’s future.
After a series of
discussions with agricultural
economist from both state
and federal levels, the
Committee resolved to
encourage and assist in the
development of a system for
maintaining a current in
ventory of Lancaster
County’s land and water
resource needs, which could
be readily updated for
continuing use by local
planners. The Soil Con
servation Service of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
indicated that funding for a
two-year period may be
available for this study, as a
pilot project.
The Lancaster Association
of Commerce and Industry,
therefore, endorsed the
project, and proposed it to
the Lancaster County
Planning Commission, with
the recommendation that the
Lancaster County Com
missioners file the formal
application necessary to
initiate the project. The
proposal was reviewed and
approved by both Planning
Commission and its Land
Use Advisory Committee,
and the letter of application
was subsequently prepared.
This application, if ap-
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FAPRS program a success
HARRISBURG - Calling
the Federal Assistance
Programs Retrieval System
“an unqualified success,”
Agriculture Secretary Kent
Shelhamer is urging Penn
sylvania’s 'rural com
munities to take advantage
of the Agriculture Depart
ment’s free service.
Shelhamer said that in the
first two years of operation,
2,300 requests were received
by the Agriculture Depart
ment for information. These
requests came from not only
state and local government,
but also from consulting
firms and other private
organizations.
The Agriculture Secretary
proved in Washington, D.C.,
will only assure the par
ticipation, in terms of
financing and manpower by
the Soil Conservation Ser
vice. Additional input into
the study would be required
from local sources, including
the County Planning
Commission, and the project
will be undertaken only after
all parties concerned have
reached a mutually agreed
upon determination of all of
the specifics pertaining to
the study. This process will
take place following the
funding request approval
from Washington, when the
acutal work program is
developed.
If all arrangements can be
satisfactorily worked out,
the study could begin in the
Fall of 1978.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 6,1978
said that the FAPRS
program, as administered
by the Department, includes
technical assistance on
followup work, researching
grant possibilities, con
tacting federal agencies and
completing applications and
project proposals.
“Most rural communities
cannot afford a full time
grant planner,” Shelhamer
said, “and are not familiar
with federal or private
assistance programs.
Through the FAPRS
program this information
and technical assistance is
readily available to our rural
governments.”
He said the program could
be a valuable asset to
Pennsylvania’s rural
Crop sign-up period extended
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Secretary of Agriculture Bob
Bergland has announced
that the signup period for the
1978 feed grain, wheat and
cotton programs has been
extended through May 15.
The extension was made
because of changes in the
programs announced March
29 by the Vice President and
Secretary Bergland. These
changes included provision
for additional diversion
under the cotton and feed
grain programs and the
community, citing a $405,000
medical grant obtained for
the Southern Huntingdon
Medical Center in Or
basonia, Huntingdon County.
The program could be
used more fully by rural
municipalities, he said.
“They are not taking full
advantage of technical
assistance which can be
valuable in project planning.
Where unemployment is a
serious problem, com
munities are not checking
with federal employment
services nor with social
service funding possibilities.
“The value of the FAPES
program cannot be over
stated,” he said. “But rural
communities must take
advantage of this free ser
vice in order to reap the
benefits.”
option under me wheat
program to graze out wheat
or harvest hay on a per
centage of the planted
acreage.
The action on the
Emergency Agricultural Act
of 1978 on April 12 in the
House of Representatives
leaves unchanged the three
programs as announced by
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. Some farmers
had contacted the Depart
ment after the House vote to
learn whether this action
affected the programs.
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