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Tuscaloosa County 2004 EQIP Program


Executive Summary

The local EQIP program signup for 2004 is open and signup is continuous. 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 Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agency (FSA), 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 ranking and prioritizing applications will be April 19, 2004. There will be another batching period May 17, 2004, if all funds were not obligated during the first batching period.

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. Water Conservation
  5. At Risk Species/Threatened and Endangered

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. 

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 will be based on 50 percent unless it is a practice that is set up for an incentive payment. All applications will be ranked using the State wide ranking sheet but Limited Resource Farmers will qualify for a higher percentage on cost-shared practices.

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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