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DeKalb County 2004 EQIP Program


Executive Summary

The Natural Resources Conservation Service of USDA in DeKalb County, Alabama, will hold a signup for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for the 2004 Fiscal year. This signup will be held on a continuous basis. Any eligible landuser who has a resource concern or problem on pastureland, cropland, or hayland may apply for assistance through this program. Applications may be made at the NRCS office and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) of the DeKalb County USDA Service Center located at 200 Main Street West, Suite 105, Rainsville, Alabama, Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. The telephone number is (256) 638-6398 or (256) 638-2181 and the office fax number is (256) 638-6955. The local contact person is Jerry Wisener, District Conservationist.

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

  1. Water Quality (Animal Waste)
  2. Grazing Lands
  3. Erosion-Soil Quality
  4. At-Risk Species Habitat
  5. Water Conservation

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. The first batching period for ranking and prioritizing applications will be April 30. Additional batching periods will be every 30 days thereafter. Applications that end in a tie for environmental points will have names placed in a box and a drawing held to break the tie.

Eligible Practices and cost-share rates approved by the DeKalb County USDA workgroup are the same as those approved by the State Conservationist (below). Planned conservation practices used to address the priority resource concerns will come from this list.

Applications may also be taken on-line at: http://www.sc.egov.usda.gov. 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 Ranking Tool (76 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentState Practices, Cost-Share Rates, and Restrictions (100 KB)

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