Enrollment criteria and selection process.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) (i) Potential of surface and ground water quality to degradation; (ii) Potential of soil to degradation; (iii) Potential of grazing land to degradation; (iv) State or national conservation and environmental issues e.g., location of air non-attainment zones or important wildlife/fisheries habitat; and (v) Local availability of management tools needed to more efficiently operate the program, such as digital soils information. (2) Priority watersheds selected, in which producers would be potentially eligible for enrollment, will be announced in the sign-up notice. (b) (1) Enrollment categories may be defined by criteria related to resource concerns and levels of historic conservation treatment, including the producer's willingness to achieve additional environmental performance or conduct enhancement activities. (2) All applications which meet the sign-up criteria within the priority watersheds will be placed in an enrollment category regardless of available funding. (3) NRCS will develop subcategories within each enrollment category and include them in the sign-up notice. The development of subcategories may consider several factors, including: (i) Willingness of the applicant to participate in local conservation enhancement activities; (ii) Targeting program participation for Limited Resource Producers; (iii) Targeting program participation to water quality priority areas for nutrient or pest management; (iv) Targeting program participation for locally important wildlife/f

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 1469.6