Assistance program
Conservation Security Program
$24,105 committed in FY2018–FY2020
- Agency
- Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.921
- What it does
- The CSP provides financial and technical assistance to promote the conservation and improvement of soil, water, air, energy, plant and animal life, and other conservation purposes on Tribal and private working lands. Working lands include cropland, grassland, prairie land, improved pasture, and range land, as well as forested land that is an incidental part of an agriculture operation. The goal of CSP is to identify and reward those farmers and ranchers who are meeting the highest standards of conservation and environmental management on their operations and to support ongoing stewardship of private agricultural lands by providing payments for maintaining and enhancing natural resources.
- Who benefits
- An individual producer, partnership, association, corporation, estate, trust, other business or other legal entities controlling eligible lands. The term producer means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing any crop or livestock; and must be entitled to share in the crop or livestock available for marketing from an agricultural operation. An applicant must be in compliance with highly erodible land and wetland conservation provisions, and average adjusted gross income requirements. Lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, Wetlands Reserve Program, the Grassland Reserve Program pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 3838n, public land including land owned by a Federal, State or local unit of government are not eligible for enrollment in CSP and may not receive CSP payments.
- Who applies
- Applicants must have applied prior to Oct. 1, 2008. Applicants may offer eligible land on a portion of their agricultural operation to enter into a five year contract, or entire agricultural operation for a five to ten year contract. Subject to the acceptance of an offer by the Federal Government, the participant shall agree to participate as outlined in the CSP stewardship plan and contract. The contract will include appropriate stewardship, new practice, existing practice, and enhancement payments. Subject to the availability of funds, CCC will make stewardship, existing practice, new practice or enhancement payments at the rates specified in this contract after a determination by CCC than an eligible practice or activity has been established in compliance with the CSP plan of operations and in accordance with appropriate standards and specifications.
- Authorized by
- Title XII, subtitle D, chapter 2, subchapter A of the Food Security Act of 1985, 16 U.S.C. 3838-3838c, as added by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Pub.L. 107-171, as amended by Section 2301 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110-246. Th…
- Program site
- http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/ ↗
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