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Terms and Abbreviations Common to All Programs

Acronym Description
AC Area Conservationist
ACP Agricultural Conservation Program (FSA)
ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution
ANA Annual Agreement
BCS Basic Conservation System
C Cropping factor for Sheet and Rill Erosion (USLE)or climate factor for Wind Erosion Equation (WEQ)
CCC Commodity Credit Corporation
CD Conservation District
CED County Executive Director (FSA)
CFO Conservation Farm Option
C.F.R. Code of Federal Regulations
COC County Committee (FSA)
COD Conservation Operations Division
COE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
CPA Conservation Planning Assistance
CRBSCP Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
CRP Conservation Reserve Program
CSP Conservation Security Program
CSREES Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
C/S Cost-share
CTU Conservation Treatment Unit
6-CP FSA Manual for administering 1985 Act
CW Converted Wetland
CWA Clean Water Act
DC District Conservationist or Designated Conservationist
DCCP Deputy Chief Conservation Programs
EFT Electronic Fund Transfer
EI Erodibility Index
EQIP Environmental Quality Incentives Program
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EWRP Emergency Wetland Reserve Program
FACTA Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
FCIC Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
FFIS Foundation Federal Information System
FIP Forestry Incentives Program
FMP Forest Management Plan
FOCS Field Office Computing System
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FOTG Field Office Technical Guide
FPP Farmland Protection Program
FSA Farm Service Agency
FS U.S. Forest Service
FSN Farm Serial Number
FWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
GAO General Accounting Office
GM General Manual
GPCP Great Plains Conservation Program
GPS Global Positioning System
HEL Highly Erodible Land
HELC Highly Erodible Land Conservation Provision of the Food Security Act of 1985
I Soil erodibility factor for wind erosion
K Soil Erodibility factor for sheet and rill erosion
LS Factor relating to length and steepness of slope for sheet and rill erosion
LTA Long-term agreement
LTC Long-term contract
NAD National Appeals Division
NEPA National Environmental Policy Act of 1970
NFC National Finance Center
NFSAM National Food Security Act Manual
NHQ NRCS National Headquarters
NIPF Non-industrial Private Forest Land
NPPH National Planning Procedures Handbook
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
OBPA Office of Budget and Program Analysis
OGC Office of the General Counsel
OIG Office of the Inspector General
OMB Office of Management and Budget
PHE Potentially highly erodible
QAR Quality Assurance Reviews
QAT Quality Action Team
R Rainfall factor for sheet and rill erosion
RD Rural Development Agency
RUSLE Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation
RMS Resource Management System
STC State Conservationist or State Technical Committee
SF Special Forestry Practice
SFR State Forestry Representative
T Tolerable soil loss in tons per acre per year
TMDL Total Maximum Daily Loads
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USLE Universal Soil Loss Equation
WBP Water Bank Program
WC Wetland Conservation provisions of 1985 Act
WEQ Wind Erosion Equation
WHIP Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program
WQIP Water Quality Incentives Program
WRP Wetland Reserve Program

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