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DEAPR - continued
<br />Promote best land use and total resource management systems; agricultural conservation
<br />planning that includes sediment and nutrient reduction, wildlife enhancement, water quality
<br />improvement; and reforestation through available cost share /incentive programs.
<br />Provide technical assistance to urban landowners; assessment, planning and designing BMP's to
<br />retrofit and treat water quality concerns with sediment and storm water runoff problems. Continue
<br />successful abandoned well closure program working directly with and using guidelines from the
<br />Orange Co. Environmental Health Dept. and the NC Division of Water Quality
<br />Assist DEAPR /Natural and Cultural Resources division with technical assistance, development
<br />and review of agricultural conservation plans, assist with yearly status reviews of conservation
<br />easements secure state and federal funding for the Orange County agricultural conservation
<br />easement program.
<br />Increase awareness and enrollment in the VAD /EVAD program available to agricultural operations.
<br />Project an enrollment increase of 65% (4,500 acres), by June 2013.
<br />Promote natural resources educational opportunities by assisting school s /teachers /home-
<br />schoolers with developing outdoor classrooms, farm trips, mini - grants program, teachers'
<br />workshops, environmental field days, local, state and national Envirothon contest, and free
<br />resource materials.
<br />Performance Measures
<br />2010 -11
<br />2011 -12
<br />2012 -13
<br />2012 -13
<br />2013 -14
<br />Actual
<br />Actual
<br />Budget
<br />Projected
<br />Budget
<br />Service: Help conserve natural resources and promote good agricultural practices through agricultural and
<br />resource conservation cost -share programs.
<br />Allocate funds encumbered /contracted
<br />$71,470
<br />$133,982
<br />$102,000
<br />$111,443
<br />$104,000
<br />with agricultural land users with ACSP,
<br />DA, IIP, AgWRAP, CREP, JL 319 funds
<br />Allocate funds encumbered /contracted
<br />$26,580
<br />$17,120
<br />$3,850
<br />$3,850
<br />$4,000
<br />with urban land users with CCAP*
<br />Allocate USDA -EQIP funding for
<br />$120,000
<br />$115,000
<br />$120,000
<br />$120,000
<br />$120,000
<br />installation of conservation practices*
<br />Apply for State /Federal Farmland
<br />$150,000
<br />$0
<br />$0
<br />$50,000
<br />$50,000
<br />Protection Program funding for
<br />easements (match funding $)
<br />Farmland Enrolled in VAD /EVAD
<br />2,540
<br />2,956
<br />3,500
<br />4,500
<br />6,000
<br />program (total acres)
<br />Promote natural resources; assist
<br />2,200
<br />2,100
<br />2,400
<br />2,800
<br />2,400
<br />citizens with information; educational
<br />opportunities, (no. of individuals )
<br />*Note: Based on available grant funding.
<br />FY 2013 -14 Objectives
<br />Maintain a high level of customer service through agriculture implementation of best management
<br />practices (BMP) that will improve soil and water quality in watersheds and utilization of incentive
<br />programs.
<br />Increase awareness and advance County, state and federal programs that provide education,
<br />technical and financial assistance to agricultural and non - agricultural landowners, public and
<br />private, to protect Orange County's natural resources.
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