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EQIP FY 2024 Ranking Criteria for Caribbean Area Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership

Applicability

Does the assessed practice schedule intersect the boundary of a selected and active Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership (JCLRP) project?

  • a. Yes — Points: 0
  • b. No — Points: 0

Category Question

Conservation treatments for assessed PLUs are in: 

  • a. Rio Grande de Anasco watershed — Points: 0
  • b. Rio Culebrinas watershed — Points: 0
  • c. Rio Guajataca watershed — Points: 0
  • d. Rio Camuy watershed — Points: 0
  • e. Rio Grande de Arecibo watershed — Points: 0
  • f. Rio Fajardo watershed — Points: 0

Program Questions

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1. Is the program application for development of a Conservation Planning, Activity, Design and Implementation Activity, and/or Conservation Evaluation and Monitoring Activity (CPAs, DIAs, CEMAs)? IF YES, do not answer any other question in this section.

  • a. Yes — Points: 200
  • b. No — Points: 0

2. Does the applicant self-certified for any of the following HU Categories on the NRCS-CPA-1200? Limited Resource Farmer or Rancher, Beginning Farmer or Rancher, Socially disadvantaged Farmer or Rancher, or Veteran Farmer or Rancher*

  • a. Yes — Points: 30
  • b. No — Points: 0

3. Is the application been evaluated under another ranking pool?*

  • a. Yes — Points: 100
  • b. No — Points: 0

4. Does this participant have prior year contracts or has an active contract including practices that address the same resource concerns considered in this application?*

  • a. Yes — Points: 0
  • b. No — Points: 20

5. EQIP project addresses how many of the following resource concerns: degraded plant condition, aquatic habitat, terrestrial habitat, soil erosion and fire management?*

  • a. Three or More Resource Concerns — Points: 50
  • b. Two Resource Concerns — Points: 25
  • c. One Resource Concern — Points: 10

Resource Questions

1. Is this project within or near a locally identified priority watershed or environmentally sensitive area?

  • a. Yes — Points: 100
  • b. No — Points: 0

2. Does the EQIP contract leverage the management of natural resources across land ownership (public-private) boundaries?

  • a. EQIP project is located in an area that is adjacent to high priority projects on public land as identified in the selected JCLRP project proposal. — Points: 100
  • b. EQIP project is located in an area that is within the same 12-digit hydrologic unit as high priority projects on public land as identified in the selected JCLRP project proposal. — Points: 75