Iowa Admin. Code r. 27-10.73 - Eligibility for financial incentives
(1)
District cooperator . Rescinded IAB 7/18/07, effective
6/27/07.
(2)
Administrative
order . Rescinded IAB 7/18/07, effective 6/27/07.
(3)
Practices installed on adjoining
public lands. Where soil and water conservation practices are
installed on public lands, which benefit adjoining private lands, and costs of
the installation are to be shared by the parties, state cost-share funds may be
used to cost-share the landowner cost of the erosion control portion of the
project.
(4)
Ineligible
lands.
a. Iowa financial incentive
funds shall not be used to reimburse other units of government for implementing
soil and water conservation practices.
b. Privately owned land not used for
agricultural production shall not qualify for financial incentives.
c. Tracts of land used for agricultural
production which are less than ten acres in size and from which less than $2500
of agricultural products are sold annually shall not qualify for financial
incentives funds, unless approved by the commissioners as part of a group
project or as a continuation of an adjacent system.
d. Tracts of land enrolled in the United
States Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) that have
more than 90 days left on the contract.
(5)
Need for soil and water
conservation practices.
a. Financial
incentives shall be available only for those soil and water conservation
practices determined to be needed by the district to reduce excessive erosion
or sedimentation and included in the designated practices identified in Part 8
of these rules. Such determination of need shall be made by a qualified
technician .
b. At the discretion of
the SWCD commissioners, practice construction may be allowed during the last 90
days of the CRP contract.
(6)
District priorities.
Each application for financial incentives shall be evaluated under the priority
system adopted by the district for disbursement of allocated funds. The
district priority system shall be reviewed annually by the district . The
priority system shall be sent electronically to the division for the division 's
record after the annual review. The priority system shall give consideration to
the public benefit derived. The priority system adopted by the district shall
be made available for review at the district office.
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