[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR700.23]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
             SUBCHAPTER A--AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAM
 
                 Subpart C--Participant's RCWP Contracts
 
Sec. 700.23  Water quality plan.

    (a) The participant's water quality plan, developed with technical 
assistance and certification by the SCS or its designee and approved by 
the CD, is to include appropriate approved BMPs. Such BMPs must reduce 
the amount of pollutants that enter a stream, aquifer, or lake by:
    (1) Methods such as reducing the application rates or changing the 
application methods or potential pollutants.
    (2) Methods such as practices or combinations of practices which 
prevent potential pollutants from leaving source areas or reduce the 
amount of potential pollutants that reach a stream or lake after leaving 
a source area.
    (b) Participants' water quality plans shall include BMPs for the 
treatment of all critical areas or sources on the farm on that land 
within the project area regardless of eligibility for cost-sharing with 
RCWP funds. Management type BMPs which are not cost-shared but for which 
technical advice will be given project participants shall be listed in 
the plan. A water quality plan is not required for that portion of a 
farm that does not include a critical area or source.
    (c) The participant is responsible for compliance with all 
applicable Federal, State, and local laws including those relating to 
the environment, in installing BMPs to solve the nonpoint source water 
quality problems.
    (d) Time schedules for implementing BMPs are to be provided in the 
participant's water quality plan.
    (e) The SCS or its designee shall make an annual status review to 
assure the technical adequacy of the implementation of the water quality 
plan.