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Kansas Conservation History

1962, September 27 1962 Farm Bill -- Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) program authorized.
1963, July 16 Construction starts for first P.L. 566 watershed project, Walnut Creek Watershed, Brown, County
1965, July 22 Water Resources Planning Act provides for river basin studies.
1968 Governor signs first strip mining reclamation law for Kansas.
1968, September Kansas' first RC&D project, Sunflower, authorized in south-central Kansas