Nebraska Soil and Water Conservation Program
(Funds come from the State)
Eligible Practices:
NC-1 Terrace Systems
NC-2 Terrace Underground Outlets
NC-3 Water Impoundment Dams
NC-4 Grade Stabilization Structures
NC-5 Irrigation Tailwater Recovery Pits
NC-6 Diversions
NC-7 Grassed Waterways
NC-8 Water and Sediment Control Basins
NC-9 Dugouts for Livestock Water
NC-10 Pasture Planting or Range Seeding
NC-11 Critical Area Planting (grass)
NC-12 Windbreaks, Drip Systems and Weed Barrier
NC-13 Underground Return Pipe from Irrigation Tailwater Recovery Pits
NC-14 Planned Grazing Systems
NC-16 Windbreak Renovation
NC-17 Irrigation Water Management
NC-18 Streambank Stabilization
NC-19 Repair of Practices
Cost share on all above is 50% of actual costs.
Maximum amount of cost share is
$3,500.00 per landowner per year on Practice NC-13.
Maximum amount of cost share on NC-14 is $5,000.00.
On windbreak renovation, a plan must be reviewed and approved by a forester of the Nebraska Forest Service. The landowner must agree to replant the windbreak and no payment for a windbreak renovation practice will be made until the windbreak has been replanted.
On Streambank Stabilization an applicant may apply for either
Soil and Water Conservation cost share (NC-18) or Central Platte NRD cost share at
50%. Maximum amount of cost share from the Central Platte NRD is $3,000.00.
Use NSWCP-3 Application Forms. Applications must be in the name of the landowner with corresponding social security number or tax ID number.
Applications for cost share are not effective until approved by the NRD Board of Directors. After approved, application will be returned to the Natural Resources Conservation Service and landowner will be notified by NRD concerning approval.
Practices must be planned and installed according to Natural Resources Conservation Service specifications.
Claims for payment will not be accepted more than five months from the date the application is approved. There are no extensions except for NC-17 - Irrigation Water Management.
Items of cost for which reimbursement is claimed must be
supported by documentation of payments made or due. Sales tax is to be included for cost share.
Maintenance on a practice is not eligible for cost share.
The landowner must agree that if any or all of the installed
practices shall be removed, altered, or modified so as to lessen their effectiveness without consent of the NRD for a
period of ten years after the date of receiving payment, that portion of the claimed amount shall be refunded to the Nebraska
Natural Resources Commission.
Additional terms for NC-17 - Irrigation Water Management:
1. Limit of $5,000.00 per plan per landowner with one plan per year with the year starting at the approval date.
2. Plan must be developed on FSA tract basis (one plan per tract).
3. Producer must include a flow meter or some type of hour meter, with the NRD certifying the output of the well.
4. Cost share on center pivot drop pipes and conversion nozzles available on old pivots only, on site and in place for at least 3 years.
5. Even though there are no extensions on cost share in Central Platte -- this practice will carry the possibility of up to a two year extension.
6. A plan can be modified by amendment if the modification is according to NRCS specs.
7. The NRCS form will be used as the official reporting form for rainfall, irrigation water applied and ET.
8. Producer will be encouraged to supply evapotranspiration (ET) data the first year (CPNRD can obtain ET data the initial year) and producer will be required to supply ET data in succeeding years.
9. Producer will be required to submit reporting form to NRCS by November 1 each year the plan is being implemented as well as the next two years after completion of the practice and the NRCS will review these forms with the producer.
10. Landowner must complete and sign Form NSWCP-14.