Source: USDA, 12/15/20
The U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking public input on Nonindustrial
Private Forest Land (NIPF) related to technical and financial assistance
available through conservation programs of USDA’s Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS). “We want to ensure we continue program consistency across USDA agencies with how we are defining nonindustrial private forest lands,” said NRCS Acting Chief Kevin Norton. “It’s important that our conservation assistance reach all eligible lands in accordance with proper criteria to ensure we enroll eligible lands that hold meaningful opportunities.” NRCS welcomes input from
stakeholders to assist with the development of guidance about how to identify
NIPF for program enrollment purposes. NRCS must ensure that such guidance is
consistent with how other USDA agencies identify NIPF under identical or
similar programmatic frameworks. This request for input is to improve
transparency about how NRCS makes land eligibility determinations with respect
to forest lands. The nonindustrial private forest
land criteria will be adopted after the close of the 30-day period and after
consideration of all comments. Submitting Comments NRCS invites input on this
technical guidance through January 19, 2021. Electronic comments must be
submitted through regulations.gov
under Docket no. NRCS–2020–0009. All written comments received will be publicly available on http://www.regulations.gov
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