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title: "16 U.S.C. § 3824"
description: "Fairness of compliance"
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title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
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chapter_name: "ERODIBLE LAND AND WETLAND CONSERVATION AND RESERVE PROGRAM"
section: "3824"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3824"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 3824 - Fairness of compliance
## Text
If the actions of an unrelated person or public entity, outside the control of, and without the prior approval of, the landowner or tenant result in a change in the characteristics of cropland that would cause the land to be determined to be a wetland, the affected land shall not be considered to be wetland for purposes of this subchapter.
(Pub. L. 99198, title XII, § 1224, as added Pub. L. 101624, title XIV, § 1424, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3576.)