Emergency Conservation Program

 

To enable farmers to perform emergency conservation measures to control wind erosion on farmlands, to rehabilitate farmlands damaged by wind erosion, floods, hurricanes, or other natural disasters and to carry out emergency water conservation or water enhancing measures during periods of severe drought.

Active 10.054 Farm Service Agency, Department of Agriculture C - Direct Payments For Specified Use; D - Direct Payments With Unrestricted Use Not applicable. Agricultural Credit Act of 1978, Public Law 95-334, 16 U.S.C. 2201-2205, Statute 92,420
Additional Supplemental Appropriations for Disaster Relief Act, 2019, Public Law 116-20 Any agricultural producer who as owner, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper on a farm or ranch, including associated groups, and bears a part of the cost of an approved conservation practice in a disaster area, is eligible to apply for cost-share conservation assistance. This program is also available in American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Any agricultural producer who as owner, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper on a farm or ranch, including associated groups, and bears a part of the cost of an approved conservation practice in a disaster area, is eligible to apply for cost-share conservation assistance. This program is also available in American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Identification as an eligible person and proof of contribution to the cost of performing the conservation practice. Preapplication coordination is not applicable. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. Eligible persons may submit an application on Form AD-245, for cost-sharing, at the county FSA office for the county in which the affected land is located. . The county FSA committee reviews, prioritizes, and may approve applications in whole or in part. Approvals cannot exceed the county allocation of Federal funds for that purpose. Not applicable. From 15 to 30 days. From 2 to 3 weeks. Not applicable. Not applicable. Not applicable. Following a natural disaster, the county FSA committee determines, with concurrence from the State FSA committee, to make the program available in the county. Emergency cost- sharing is limited to new conservation problems created by natural disasters which, if not treated will impair or endanger the land, materially affect the productive capacity of the land, represent damage that is unusual in character and, except for wind erosion, is not the type that would recur frequently in the same area and will be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be required to return the land to productive agricultural use. Eligible drought situations for water enhancing measures must be determined by the Deputy Administrator for Farm Programs, FSA. Not applicable. Not applicable. Maintained in the county FSA office and Federal record centers for a specified number of years. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. Practice cost-share approvals are given on a fiscal year basis. The approvals specify the time that the practice must be carried out. Payment is by check or electronic funds transfer following completion of the measure. Method of awarding/releasing assistance: Lump. Farmers are advised to contact their local county FSA office after a natural disaster has occurred to determine whether the program is available in the county and to determine eligibility for emergency cost-share assistance. Consult the local telephone directory for location of the county FSA office. Consult the appropriate FSA State office where the property is located. For a list of FSA State offices with telephone numbers and addresses, information is available on the internet, visit FSA website at www.fsa.usda.gov to locate nearest office. Shanita Landon
1400 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20250 US
Shanita.Landon@usda.gov
Phone: (202) 690-1612 http://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/conservation-programs/emergency-conservation/index 12-3316-0-1-453 (Direct Payments with Unrestricted Use) FY 22$200,000,000.00; FY 23 est $100,000,000.00; FY 24 est $100,000,000.00; FY 21$123,712,000.00; FY 20$267,041,000.00; FY 19$260,000,000.00; FY 18$176,461,000.00; FY 17$104,312,000.00; FY 16$71,000,000.00; - Not applicable/available. Program regulations published in the Federal Register at 7 CFR, Part 701. Program is announced through the news media in the county area designated as a disaster area. Not applicable.