To help people conserve, improve, and sustain our
natural resources and environment.
TYPES OF ASSISTANCE:
Advisory Services and Counseling. Place Cursor Here for Definition
USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS:
Technical assistance to the general public in planning
and applying natural resource conservation practices, systems, and treatment;
and furnishing technical natural resource conservation information to State
and local governments.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Applicant Eligibility: Land
users, Land owners, Community organizations State governments and local
governments. Resource assistance needed is usually reviewed with the
conservation district governing body. Individuals and groups may become
cooperators with local conservation districts to which application for
assistance is directed. Applicants are also eligible in Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, and Western Pacific U.S. Trust Territories.
Beneficiary Eligibility:
General public, State governments, and local governments.
Pre-application Coordination:
This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.
Application Procedure:
Contact the local Natural Resources Conservation Service office in nearly all
counties. Pre-application coordination of this program is not required. This
program is subject to the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-110.
Award Procedure: Not
applicable.
Deadlines: None.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time:
Not applicable.
Appeals: Not applicable.
Renewals: Not applicable.
ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS:
Formula and Matching Requirements:
Not applicable.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance:
Not applicable.
POST ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Reports: Not applicable.
Audits: Not applicable.
Records: Not applicable.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION:
Account Identification:
12-1000-0-1-302.
Obligations: (Salaries and
expenses) FY 01 $638,016,274; FY 02 est $690,436,467; and FY 03 est
$765,708,000.
Range and Average of Financial Assistance:
Not applicable.
NRCS provided conservation technical assistance to
nearly 3 million customers, in fiscal year 2000. Of the customers assisted,
over 347,000 were members of minority groups. As a result of these
conservation planning services, a total of 10.2 million acres of cropland and
10.8 million acres of grazing land were treated to the resource management
system level (sustainable management). On 4.2 million acres of cropland that
had been eroding at excessive rates, NRCS technical assistance enabled farmers
to reduce erosion to the tolerable rate or less, thus preserving the
productive capacity of the soil. Overall, NRCS provided conservation planning
assistance on more than 34 million acres of land in all uses and application
assistance on more than 29 million acres.
REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE:
"Conquest of the Land," AIB99; "Soil
Erosion by Water," AIB513; "Assistance Available from the Natural
Resources Conservation Service," AIB345; "Controlling Erosion on
Construction Sites," AIB347; "Community Improvement Through Resource
Conservation and Development," PA1077; "Save Soil
Systematically," PA1366. "List of Published Soil Surveys;"
"Going Wild with Natural resource Conservation," PA1363;
"Conversation Planning-You and Your Land," PA 1376, "Farming
and Maintaining Terraces," LN570.
INFORMATION CONTACTS:
Regional or Local Office:
State and local Natural Resources Conservation Service offices (see Appendix
IV of the Catalog).
Headquarters Office: Thomas
A. Weber, Deputy Chief for Natural Resources Conservation Programs, Natural
Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2890,
Washington, DC 20013. Telephone: (202) 720-4527. Use the same number for FTS.
