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Lawrence County 2007 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Lawrence County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2007 Fiscal Year. This signup will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible land user who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, animal waste, or hay land may apply for assistance through this program.

Applications may be made at the NRCS or FSA office of the Lawrence County USDA Service Center located at 13075 AL Hwy 157, Suite 4, and Moulton, Alabama 35650, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is 256-974-1176, extension 3, and the fax number is 256-974-4404. The local contact person is Billy Frost, District Conservationist.

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

  1. Grazing Lands
  2. Water Quality
  3. Soil Quality/Erosion
  4. Forest Health and Wildlife

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, 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 on November 17, 2006, for county concerns. Any applications filed later than this date will be considered in the next pool of funding (if additional funds become available) with subsequent batching dates set as needed. The applicant’s last name will be selected alphabetically, in ascending order, to break a tie of environmental points between applications.

Applicants who wish to apply for conservation tillage can only apply 150 acres for 3 years.
Eligible Practices, Restrictions, and Cost-share rates approved by the Lawrence County USDA work group are the same as those on the NRCS statewide list. Planned conservation practices used to address the priority resource concerns will come from these lists.

County Ranking Tool for FY2007 County Allocations

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

 These documents may require Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Excel.

Eligible Practices and Cost-share Types and Rates FY07
Appendix to Form NRCS-CPA-1202: Conservation Program Contract (National NRCS-will open in new window)

Adobe Acrobat DocumentConservation Program Application - NRCS-CPA-1200 (39 KB)

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