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Marion County 2007 EQIP Program

Executive Summary

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in Marion County, Alabama, is accepting applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2007 Fiscal Year. Applications will be accepted on a continuous basis. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, hayland, cropland, forestland or other eligible agricultural land may apply for assistance through this program.

Applications may be made at the Marion/Winston USDA Service Center located at 285 Laurel Lane in Hamilton. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is 205-921-3103, extension 3, and the fax number is 205-921-2008. The contact person at the USDA office is Lawayne Robinson, District Conservationist.

Local resource concerns have been discussed and identified by the local USDA work group. The concerns have been prioritized as:

  1. Grazing
  2. Forest Health/Wildlife
  3. Water Quality (animal waste)
  4. Erosion/Soil Quality

All applications will be ranked using an environmental benefits worksheet. 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. If applications are tied in environmental points, the least costly application will be funded first. If applications are still tied, the tie will be broken by a random drawing at a called meeting of the USDA work group.

The first batching period for ranking and prioritizing applications will end November 17, 2006. Additional batching periods will used, if funds remain available. Any application filed after a batching date will be considered in the next pool of funding.

The NRCS state approved list of eligible practices and cost-share rates will be used in Marion County, with the following exception:

  • Practices with incentive payments will be limited to 125 acres per applicant unless funds remain after funding of all the eligible county concerns. If the acreage limit is raised because of the availability of funds, the acreage limit will be raised equally for all eligible applications.
     
  • Pasture planting will be limited to 50 acres per applicant unless funds remain after funding of all the eligible county concerns. If the acreage limit is raised because of the availability of funds, the acreage limit will be raised equally for all eligible applications.
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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