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Washington County 2006 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

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

The first evaluation period for ranking and prioritizing applications will be January 6, 2006, and additional batching periods will be set as needed thereafter until all monies are obligated. If you have a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, or hayland on your farm that you need assistance to solve, visit the local NRCS office and fill out an application. Your practices cannot begin until you have been approved; otherwise it will become ineligible.

You can file an application at the NRCS office in Jackson, Alabama, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. This office is located at 3100 HWY 43, Suite B; phone: 251-246-0245, extension 3.

The overall objectives of the USDA-EQIP program is aimed at treating resource problems within Washington County to improve conservation and sustain the resource base. This includes cropland, pastureland, forestland, and environmentally sensitive areas and habitat sites impacted for food and fiber production.

Resource concern water conservation will not be offered due to there not being any existing irrigation systems in Washington County. The county concerns that have been prioritized are:

  1. Animals/Grazing Systems
  2. Soil Quality/Erosion on Cropland
  3. Water Quality/Animal Waste
  4. Forest Health and Wildlife

Please refer to the NRCS state list for practices and restrictions, and cost-share rates. Practices or applications that appear to be production in nature will be of least concern. Conservation and resource benefits will be first considered. 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 the case of a tie, the application with the lowest cost.

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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