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Franklin County 2006 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Franklin County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2006 Fiscal year.  This signup will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, wildlife, forestry or hayland may apply for assistance through this program.

Applications may be made at the NRCS office of the Franklin County USDA Service Center located at 13150 Highway 43 Suite 7A, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is 256-332-0274 and the office fax number is 256-332-8109. The local contact person is Sharon Andress, District Conservationist.

The USDA work group has prioritized the resource concerns in Franklin County as:

1. Forest Health and Wildlife
2. Water Quality
3. Grazing Land
4. Soil Erosion
5. Cropland

All applications will be ranked using an environmental benefits worksheet and approvals will be given to those applications that will provide the greatest environmental benefits, i.e. those receiving the most environmental points. Contracts will be developed for approved applications in order of descending environmental points, until all funds are obligated.

Applications will be batched and ranked. The first batching period will end January 6, 2006, for ranking and prioritizing applications and subsequent batching dates will be announced as needed. The date on which the application was taken will be used to break ties between applicants with the same number of environmental points. If ties between applicants still exist, random drawing will make the selection.

Franklin County will use the NRCS State Practices and cost-share lists approved by the  USDA workgroup are below. Planned conservation practices used to address the priority resource concerns will come from this list.

Additional information is available at: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/.  

  These documents require Adobe Acrobat.

Adobe Acrobat DocumentConservation Program Application - CCC1200 (330 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Practices and Restrictions (121 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Cost-Share Rates (115 KB)

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