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