7 CFR § 1466.55 - Misrepresentation and scheme or device.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s1466.55"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 1466.55 - Misrepresentation and scheme or device."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "1466.55"
section_name: "Misrepresentation and scheme or device."
chapter_name: "COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "LOANS, PURCHASES, AND OTHER OPERATIONS"
part_number: "1466"
part_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "15 U.S.C. 714b and 714c; and 16 U.S.C. 3839aa—3839-8."
regulatory_source: "84 FR 69280, Dec. 17, 2019, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1466"
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# 1466.55 Misrepresentation and scheme or device.

(a) A person, joint operation, legal entity, or Indian Tribe that is determined to have erroneously represented any fact affecting a program determination made in accordance with this part will not be entitled to contract payments and must refund to NRCS all payments, plus interest, determined in accordance with 7 CFR part 1403.

(b) A producer who is determined to have knowingly—

(1) Adopted any scheme or device that tends to defeat the purpose of the program;

(2) Made any fraudulent representation;

(3) Adopted any scheme or device for the purpose of depriving any tenant or sharecropper of the payments to which such person would otherwise be entitled under the program; or

(4) Misrepresented any fact affecting a program determination, will refund to NRCS all payments, plus interest, determined in accordance with 7 CFR part 1403, received by such producer with respect to all contracts. The producer's interest in all contracts will be terminated.