The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking public input on Nonindustrial Private Forest Land 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 Denise Coleman, NRCS State Conservationist in Pennsylvania. “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 across the nation, including those in Pennsylvania, 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.
Nonindustrial private forest land criteria will be adopted after the close of the 30-day period and after consideration of all comments.
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Submitting Comments
NRCS invites input on this technical guidance through January 19. Electronic comments must be submitted through regulations.gov under Docket ID NRCS–2020–0009 [when posted on that website]. All written comments received will be publicly available on regulations.gov [when posted].
For more information on programs, initiatives, technical and financial assistance, visit the NRCS-PA webpage.
[Posted: December 15, 2020] PA Environment Digest
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