shall provide balanced treatment for crop and livestock production systems in the allocation of contracts for the conservation stewardship program and the environmental quality incentives program. (6) Active engagement The Secretary shall promulgate regulations that require participants in the conservation stewardship program and the environmental quality incentives program to be actively engaged in farming or ranching. (b) Program coordination The Secretary shall coordinate management of the conservation stewardship program and environmental quality incentives program in a manner to facilitate the opportunity for a participant enrolled in the environmental quality incentives program but not yet qualified to enroll in the conservation stewardship program to subsequently enroll in the conservation stewardship program once they have met the stewardship threshold for at least two priority resource concerns. 1239. Definitions For purposes of the conservation stewardship program subchapter B of chapter 2 and the environmental quality incentives program under chapter 4: (1) Agricultural operation The term agricultural operation means all eligible land, whether or not it is contiguous, that is— (A) under the effective control of a producer at the time the producer enters into a contract under the program