§ 1470.22 - Conservation stewardship plan.

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NRCS will use the conservation planning process as outlined in the National Planning Procedures Handbook to encourage participants to address resource concerns in a comprehensive manner.

The conservation stewardship plan will contain a record of the participant's decisions that describes the schedule of conservation activities to be implemented, managed, or improved under the conservation stewardship contract. The plan will describe the program purposes to be achieved through one or more conservation activities.

Associated supporting information maintained with the participant's plan will include:

Documentation that will be the basis for:

Identifying and inventorying priority resource concerns,

Establishing benchmark data on the condition of existing conservation activities,

Describing conservation activities to be implemented, managed, or improved, and

Documenting the participant's conservation objectives to reach and exceed stewardship thresholds;

A plan map delineating the land area identified and included in the program contract with associated acreage amounts;

In the case where a participant wishes to initiate or retain organic certification, documentation that will support the participant's transition to or participation in the National Organic Program; and

Other information as determined appropriate by NRCS.

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