104 STAT. 3608 PUBLIC LAW 101-624—NOV. 28, 1990 (c) EuGiBiLiTY. —To be eligible to participate in the program established by this section, a producer must— (1) prepare and submit to the Secretary for approval an integrated farm management plan (hereafter referred to in this section as the "plan"); (2) actively apply the terms and conditions of the plan, as approved by the Secretary; (3) devote to a resource-conserving crop, on the average through the life of the contract, not less than 20 percent of the crop acreage bases enrolled under such program; (4) comply with the terms and conditions of any annual acreage limitation program in effect for the crop acreage bases contracted under the terms of this subsection; and (5) keep such records as the Secretary may reasonably require. (d) ACREAGE.—In accepting contracts for the program, the Secretary, to the extent practicable, shall enroll not more than 3,000,000, nor more than 5,000,000, acres of cropland in the calendar years 1991 through 1995. (e) CONTRACTS. — The Secretary shall enter into contracts with producers to enroll acreage in the program. Such contracts shall be for a period of not less than 3 years, but may, at the producer's option, be for a longer period of time (up to 5 years) and may be renewed upon mutual agreement between the Secretary and the producer. if) REQUIREMENTS OF THE PLANS. —Each plan approved by the Secretary shall— (1) specify the acreage and the crop acreage bases to be enrolled in the program; (2) describe the resource-conserving crop rotation to be implemented and maintained on such acreage during the contract period to fulfill the purposes of the program; (3) contain a schedule for the implementation, improvement and maintenance of the resource-conserving crop rotation described in the plan; (4) describe the farming operations and practices to be implemented on such acreage and how such operations and practices could reasonably be expected to result in— (A) the maintenance or enhancement of the overall productivity and profitability of the farm; (B) the prevention of the degradation of farmland soils, the long-term improvement of the fertility and physical properties of such soils; and (C) the protection of water supplies from contamination by managing or minimizing agricultural pollutants if their management or minimization results in positive economic and environmental benefits; (5) assisting the producer to comply with all Federal, State, and local requirements designed to protect soil, wetland, wildlife habitat, and the quality of groundwater and surface water; and (6) contain such other terms as the Secretary may, by regulation, require. (g) ADMINISTRATION; CERTIFICATION; TERMINATION.— (1) ADMINISTRATION; TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE; FLEXIBILITY; IM- PLEMENTATION; DISPLACEMENT.—
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