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The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Texas announced that it will be accepting additional fiscal year 2023 sign-ups for the National Water Quality Initiative offered through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
The program’s purpose is to work with agriculture producers and landowners to improve water quality by helping individual agriculture producers take actions to reduce runoff of sediment, nutrients and pathogens into surface waters where the water quality is a critical concern, according to NRCS.
“The National Water Quality Initiative offered through EQIP gives producers a great opportunity to take advantage of funding provided by USDA to maximize conservation efforts and ensure thoughtful stewardship of the land,” says Nathan Bowen, Irrigation Association advocacy director.
According to the NRCS, NWQI is being offered in four priority Hydrologic Unit Code-12 watershed areas: Aransas River, Big Elm Creek, Lake Lavon and Lampasas River.
Applications must be submitted by June 2, 2023, to be considered for funding in fiscal year 2023.
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