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Trouble Downstream: Upgrading Conservation Compliance: Appendix
Table 1. Estimate of the annual number of tracts that are subject to a conservation compliance review and percentage of those tracts that are highly erodible lands
| Tracts potentially subject to review in 2002 | ||||
| State | Highly erodible lands | Potential wetlands | Total | Percent of tracts subject to review that are highly erodible lands |
| Arkansas | 5,766 | 75,770 | 81,536 | 7% |
| Illinois | 101,018 | 187,292 | 288,310 | 35% |
| Iowa | 128,783 | 124,755 | 253,538 | 51% |
| Kentucky | 124,700 | 112,022 | 236,722 | 53% |
| Louisiana | 4,499 | 56,098 | 60,597 | 7% |
| Minnesota | 40,691 | 150,473 | 191,164 | 21% |
| Mississippi | 30,675 | 54,595 | 85,270 | 36% |
| Missouri | 89,090 | 83,219 | 172,309 | 52% |
| Tennessee | 78,913 | 98,542 | 177,455 | 44% |
| Wisconsin | 81,812 | 80,161 | 161,973 | 51% |
| Total | 685,947 | 1,022,927 | 1,708,874 | 40% |
Source: Data taken from Table 7. “USDA Benefits Denied Farmers by the Farm Service Agency for Violations of Conservation Provisions by State, Crop Years 1993 to 2001” from the 2003 GAO report.
Table 2. From 1993 to 2001, none of the 10 Mississippi River border states were meeting the NRCS one percent annual tract review goal
| State | Tracts reviewed for compliance during 1993 through 2001 (GAO 2003 Report) | Thus, on average, each year, the number of tracts reviewed was | However, the number of tracts that should be reviewed each year to meet the one percent NRCS annual goal is | So, the percent of the annual NRCS one percent review goal that is being met by each state is |
| Arkansas | 3,758 | 418 | 815 | 51% |
| Illinois | 18,619 | 2,069 | 2,883 | 72% |
| Iowa | 21,076 | 2,342 | 2,535 | 92% |
| Kentucky | 13,072 | 1,452 | 2,367 | 61% |
| Louisiana | 2,371 | 263 | 606 | 43% |
| Minnesota | 9,270 | 1,030 | 1,912 | 54% |
| Mississippi | 7,120 | 791 | 853 | 93% |
| Missouri | 13,808 | 1,534 | 1,723 | 89% |
| Tennessee | 9,980 | 1,109 | 1,775 | 62% |
| Wisconsin | 11,640 | 1,293 | 1,62080% | |
| Total | 110,714 | 12,302 | 17,089 | 72% |
Source: Data in the first column was taken from Table 7. “USDA Benefits Denied Farmers by the Farm Service Agency for Violations of Conservation Provisions by State, Crop Years 1993 to 2001” from the 2003 GAO report.
Table 3. Number of tracts that each state fell short of reviewing to achieve the one percent annual review goal from 2000 to 2006
| Number of tracts that should have been reviewed each year | |||||||||
| Tracts to review to achieve the one percent annual review goal | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2000 to 2006 | |
| Arkansas | 815 | -493 | -549 | -542 | -270 | -477 | -385 | -448 | -3,164 |
| Illinois | 2,883 | -1,699 | -1,721 | -1,853 | -1,822 | -1,080 | -626 | -906 | -9,707 |
| Iowa | 2,535 | -1,023 | -1,105 | -993 | -1,019 | -148 | -330 | -828 | -5,446 |
| Kentucky | 2,367 | -1,605 | -1,429 | -1,544 | -1,350 | -1,119 | -433 | -755 | -8,235 |
| Louisiana | 606 | -364 | -362 | -364 | -359 | -183 | -257 | -321 | -2,210 |
| Minnesota | 1,912 | -1,340 | -1,407 | -1,398 | -1,406 | -530 | -863 | -952 | -7,896 |
| Mississippi | 853 | -427 | -430 | -432 | -388 | -371 | -497 | -556 | -3,101 |
| Missouri | 1,723 | -885 | -842 | -654 | -801 | -440 | -620 | -538 | -4,780 |
| Tennessee | 1,775 | -1,414 | -1,335 | -1,335 | -1,340 | -1,191 | -716 | -914 | -8,245 |
| Wisconsin | 1,620 | -995 | -785 | -793 | -829 | -190 | -192 | -381 | -4,165 |
| TOTAL | 17,089 | -10,245 | -9,965 | -9,908 | -9,584 | -5,729 | -4,919 | -6,599 | -56,949 |
Source: Data in the first column was calculated by taking one percent of the data for each state listed in the fourth
column in the Appendix Table 1.
Table 4. Tracts with wetlands conservation (WC) compliance violations
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2000 to 2006 | |
| Arkansas | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Illinois | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| Iowa | 2 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 31 | |||
| Kentucky | 0 | |||||||
| Louisiana | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | ||||
| Minnesota | 19 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 31 | 35 | 27 | 145 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Missouri | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Wisconsin | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | ||
| TOTAL | 26 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 52 | 61 | 54 | 246 |
Source: Data provided by NRCS compliance staff.
