Environmental Quality Incentives Program 2003 Sign-up

Conservation Practices - 2003 County Signups

Each county in Wisconsin has different practices and rates of cost-sharing for conservation.  Find out the details on what practices are eligible for EQIP and how NRCS ranks and determines the rate of cost-share for each project.  Eligible conservation practices and how applications are ranked in each county during 2003. 

Waste Storage - 2003 Statewide Signup

EQIP is a competitive program, with projects ranked to fund the most environmentally

 beneficial projects statewide.  About 20 percent of the EQIP funds that Wisconsin receives will be set aside for waste storage systems. 

For 2003, NRCS was able to fund 39 of the applications, with $2.3 million in EQIP financial assistance provided to Wisconsin farm operators.

Waste storage facilities will be cost shared at a rate of 70 percent.  The cost share limit for a waste storage system is $75,000.

Some of the following documents require Microsoft Excel or Adobe Acrobat.

Map of where the EQIP projects were funded in Wisconsin during 2003.

News Release-Waste Storage
Detailed information on eligibility and statewide signup during 2003

Waste storage application ranking system for 2003

Decision Making Process for EQIP During 2003

Input from Outside Groups, Agencies, and Citizens: The list of eligible practices in Wisconsin, cost share rates and limits, eligible resource concerns, and scoring criteria for waste storage were developed based on input and recommendations from the Wisconsin State Technical Committee (WSTC). The WSTC is made up of representatives from various agribusinesses, producer groups, conservation organizations, and federal, state, and tribal government agency representatives.

The list of eligible practices for the county wide signups, county scoring criteria, eligible resource concerns, and cost share rates and limits were based on input from the Local Work Groups (LWG). The LWG is made up of county agency staff. Landowners may provide advice and information to the LWG as part of the locally led process.

The priorities set at the state and county level are those that the WSTC and LWG respectively determined were of the greatest need and would have the greatest positive environmental impact. The scoring process at both the state and local level was developed in order to select those projects that would provide the greatest environmental benefit, and therefore provide the greatest public good.

Resource Concerns Addressed by EQIP

The resource concerns addressed by applications including waste storage facilities are Surface Water Quality-Animal Waste, Organics, and Pathogens (WS2); Surface Water Quality-Nutrients (WS1); and Ground Water Quality-Animal Waste, Organics, and Pathogens (WG2).  Find out more about the resource concerns that are addressed by EQIP.
 

For More Information

If you need more information about EQIP, please contact NRCS at your local USDA Service Center, or your local land conservation department.

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