Kan. Admin. Regs. § 11-9-1 - Definitions
(a) "Buffer" is a strip or area of land maintained in permanent
vegetation to help reduce potential pollution problems and achieve other
conservation objectives. Buffers are appropriately installed along streams to
enhance water quality.
(b) "Commission" means the state conservation commission (SCC).
(c) "Commissioners" means the commissioners of the state
conservation commission.
(d) "Continuous sign-up" means that persons eligible for CRP
may request to enroll certain acreage in the program at any time. The CRP
practices available during continuous sign-up provide environmental benefits
complementary to the initiative.
(e) "CRP" means the conservation reserve program administered
by the USDA farm service agency (FSA) with technical responsibility assigned to
the USDA natural resources conservation service (NRCS). The CRP may provide
cost share assistance to establish vegetation on eligible land and provides
annual rental payments on a per acre basis to maintain enrolled acres for a
period up to 15 years.
(f) "Director" means the executive director of the state
conservation commission.
(g) "District" means a conservation district.
(h) "Filter strip" means a strip or area of grass for removing
sediment, organic matter, and other pollutants from runoff and wastewater.
(i) "FSA" means the farm service agency.
(j) "Initiative" means the Kansas water quality buffer
initiative.
(k) "NRCS" means the natural resources conservation service.
(l) "Practices" means cultural or structural measures that are
installed or constructed on land for the purpose of improving or maintaining
water quality.
(m) "Program" means the Kansas water quality buffer initiative,
which shall be implemented in a manner to enhance participation under the
continuous sign-up provision of the conservation reserve program by providing
state incentives to supplement federal payments for riparian forest buffers and
filter strips.
(n) "Riparian forest buffer" means a strip or area of
vegetation containing trees and grass for removing sediment, organic matter,
and other pollutants from runoff and wastewater.
(o) "Unfarmable field" means the remaining portion of a field
in which 51% or more of the total acreage has been enrolled in the continuous
sign-up.
(p) "USDA" means the United States department of agriculture.
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