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title: "7 U.S.C. § 4204"
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title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 4204 - Technical assistance

## Text

The Secretary is encouraged to provide technical assistance to any State or unit of local government, or any nonprofit organization, as determined by the Secretary, that desires to develop programs or policies to limit the conversion of productive farmland to nonagricultural uses.

(Pub. L. 97–98, title XV, § 1543, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1343.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection effective six months after Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1549 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4201 of this title.