[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1466.6]

[Page 665]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1466_ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  1466.6  State Allocation and Management.

    The State Conservationist will:
    (a) Identify State priority natural resource concerns with the 
advice of the State Technical Committee that directly contribute towards 
meeting National priorities and measures and will use NRCS's 
accountability system to establish local level EQIP performance goals 
and treatment objectives;
    (b) Identify, as appropriate and necessary, Designated 
Conservationists who are NRCS employees that are assigned the 
responsibility to administer EQIP in specific areas, and
    (c) Use the following to determine how to manage the EQIP program 
and how to allocate funds within a state:
    (1) The nature and extent of priority natural resource concerns at 
the state and local level;
    (2) The availability of human resources, incentive programs, 
education programs, and on-farm research programs from Federal, State, 
Indian Tribe, and local levels, both public and private, to assist with 
the activities related to the priority natural resource concerns;
    (3) The existence of multi-county and/or multi-state collaborative 
efforts to address regional priority natural resource concerns;
    (4) Ways and means to measure performance and success; and
    (5) The degree of difficulty that producers face in complying with 
environmental laws.