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Kansas State Technical Committee Minutes - October 2004

Kansas State Technical Committee (KTC) Meeting
Friday, October 1, 2004
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
NRCS Conference Center
747 Duvall - Salina, Kansas

Steven, A. Parkin, Assistant State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) gave the welcome and opening remarks.  Introductions were made.

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

Gaye L. Benfer, Soil Conservationist, NRCS, reviewed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) evaluation criteria and eligible practices developed with assistance from the EQIP subcommittee.

Air Quality

  • The subcommittee recommended no changes from FY 2004 for the resource concern.
  • NRCS asked for consideration to reduce the cost-share or livestock waste facilities to 50 percent - the KTC stated several objections.  No consensus was reached for this consideration.

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Grazing Lands Health

  • The subcommittee recommended discontinuing additional assistance to drought areas.  There was consensus from the KTC.
  • The subcommittee recommended brush management (mechanical and spot treatment) be raised to 70 percent cost-share.
    • The NRCS asked for consideration on the following:
      • Leave all brush management at 50 percent.
      • Add the following requirement for broadcast chemical treatment “only to be used when mechanical treatment is not practical.”

Recommendation of KTC:  That the wording be changed to “….where mechanical and spot treatment…”

The KTC supported the NRCS request with the recommended change.

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Sedimentation of Federal Reservoirs

  • The subcommittee recommended adding priority for contracts that have matching funds and extending the eligible region to include the eight-digit hydrologic unit code of the main stem.  The KTC supported this recommendation.

Soil Quality

  • The subcommittee recommended changing the FY 2004 priority resource concern addressed from soil erosion to soil quality.  The KTC supported this recommendation.

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Water Quality

  • The subcommittee recommended giving additional priority to source water assessment areas (SWAA).
    • The NRCS asked for consideration of giving additional priority if the application fell into two out of three of the area of consideration (Sensitive Groundwater Areas, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and SWAA).

The KTC supported the NRCS request.

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Water Quantity

  • The NRCS asked for consideration in simplifying categories.  The KTC supported that request.
  • The subcommittee recommended that irrigation conversion practices be reduced to 40 percent cost share and that incentives for conversion to non-irrigated be increased by 10 percent in the Kansas Water Plan Priority Decline Areas.  This would follow the intent of the program to achieve net water savings.  The KTC supported this recommendation.

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Recommendations relating to all or multiple concerns.

  • The NRCS asked for consideration in reducing the incentive for waste utilization to $8/acre; residue management mulch-till to $6/acre; and residue management, no-till to $10/acre.  The KTC supported this request.

Forestland Health

  • The subcommittee recommended that forestland health be added as a priority resource concern to be eligible to be treated with EQIP assistance with $100,000 allocation and 70 percent cost share.  The KTC supported the recommendation.

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The KTC recommended that wildlife habitat be added as a priority resource concern to be eligible to be treated with EQIP assistance.

Gaye L. Benfer, Soil Conservationist, also reviewed the EQIP allocation recommendation.  The NRCS asked for consideration in the recommendation.  The KTC supported the NRCS request.

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Meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.

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