|
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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