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Lowndes County 2004 EQIP Program


Executive Summary

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Lowndes County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2003 Fiscal Year. This signup will be held on a continuous basis. If you have a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, or hayland on your farm that you need assistance to solve, you should come by the NRCS Office and fill out an application. You can file this application in Hayneville at the Natural Resources Conservation Service Office between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office is located at 15 North Washington Street and our telephone number is 334-548-2767. 

Applications will also be accepted at the Dallas/Lowndes County FSA Office, telephone number 334-872-3433, located at 105 Samuel O. Moseley Drive, Suite A, Selma, Alabama. 

The first batching period will end on April 30, 2004. All applications received on or before this date will then be ranked using the state approved ranking sheets. If all monies are not obligated with the first ranking then subsequent rankings will be held every thirty days until all monies have been obligated.

The local concerns that have been prioritized are:

  1. Grazing Lands

  2. Soil Quality/Erosion on Cropland

  3. Water Quality/Animal Wastes

  4. Water Conservation

  5. At Risk Species

All applications will be ranked and approvals based on an environmental ranking worksheet that will insure that the most environmental benefit is received for the dollars expended. Individuals with the highest point totals generated from this worksheet will be ranked higher in consideration to receive cost share assistance than those individuals with lower points.

Eligible practices, cost-share rates, and restrictions can be found on the State-wide Practice List (below). Planned conservation practices used to address the priority resource concerns will come from this list. The state-wide ranking sheet for the above listed resource concerns will be used in ranking the applications.

Applications may also be taken on-line at: http://www.sc.egov.usda.gov. Additional information is available at: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/.  

 These documents require Adobe Acrobat.
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Ranking Tool (76 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Practices, Cost-Share Rates, and Restrictions (100 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentConservation Program Application - CCC1200 (330 KB)

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