Tuscaloosa County 2006 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Tuscaloosa 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.

If you have a resource concern or problem on grazing land/grassland, cropland, hay land or wildlife land on your farm that you need assistance to solve, we may be able to provide both financial and technical assistance to you.

Applicants will complete the CCC-1200 application form and appendix and submit in person, by phone, e-mail, fax or letter to the NRCS, or the Tuscaloosa County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD). You may submit the application between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The offices are located at the USDA Service Center at 3831 Palisades Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, off Skyland Boulevard. The telephone number is 205-553-1733 and fax number is 205-553-1729.

The applicant’s signature and date are required on the form CCC-1200 and appendix. The signature may be obtained either at the time the application is submitted or subsequently by NRCS or by facsimile. The first batching period for applications will be December 30, 2005, with additional batching scheduled as needed to obligate the funds.

The resource concerns that are being addressed have been prioritized as follows:

1. Grazing Land
2. Erosion on Cropland/Soil Quality
3. Water Quality/Animal Waste
4. Litter Redistribution
5. Forest Health and Wildlife
6. Water Conservation

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. In case of a tie between two resource concerns the listing above will be used to determine funding with Erosion on Cropland receiving higher consideration than Water Quality, and so on. In case of a tie within the same resource concern the application with the lowest cost for the benefit obtained will be funded first and if the benefit obtained is equal then the individual that has not participated in the program will be funded first. If both have participated then the one that has not participated most recently will be funded.

The State’s list of eligible practices will be used with a limitation of 150 acres per farmer approved for residue management (conservation tillage). All cost-share percentages will be the same as the state cost list. All applications will be ranked using the State-wide ranking sheet.

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

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Conservation Program Application - CCC1200 (330 KB)
State Practices and Restrictions (121 KB)
State Cost-Share Rates (115 KB)

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