Nebraska FSA Offices Implement Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

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Nebraska FSA Offices Implement Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

08/15/2011 10:28 AM EDT

For Immediate Release
August 11, 2011

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Contact:
Dan Steinkruger, State Executive Director, at (402) 437-5581 or dan.steinkruger@ne.usda.gov
FSA Website: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/ne/

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Nebraska FSA Offices Implement Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
For Missouri River Flooding Damages

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LINCOLN, August 11, 2011 – “The Nebraska Farm Service Agency (FSA) is implementing the ECP to assist producers in rehabilitating farmland and conservation facilities damaged by the Missouri River flooding,” according to Dan Steinkruger, State Executive Director of the Nebraska Farm Service Agency.

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The following counties have been approved for the ECP to help in assisting producers to rehabilitate farmland and conservation facilities damaged by the flooding:

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Boyd, Burt, Cass, Cedar, Dakota, Dixon, Douglas, Knox, Nemaha, Otoe, Richardson, Sarpy, Thurston, Washington

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Producers can file applications for the ECP at their local FSA office from September 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011. The ECP is available to provide cost share assistance to agricultural producers who have suffered severe damage to their farmland as a result of a natural disaster and the damage is of such magnitude that it would be too costly to rehabilitate without federal assistance. Producers may be eligible to receive 75 percent of the eligible cost of restoration not to exceed $200,000 per natural disaster occurrence. Eligible practices include Debris Removal, Grading, Shaping, Re-leveling or similar Measures, Restoring Permanent Fences, Restoring Conservation Structures, and Field Windbreaks and Farmstead Shelterbelts.

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ECP application approvals are subject to the availability of funds and will depend on future dollars when determining full application approval.

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For producer’s land to be eligible, the disaster must create new conservation problems that, if untreated, would impair or endanger the land and affect its productive capacity. Conservation problems that existed prior to the applicable disaster are ineligible for ECP assistance.
More information on ECP and other disaster assistance programs is available at any FSA office and online at: http://disaster.fsa.usda.gov.

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