NRCS Announces Hurricane Helene Disaster Assistance Application Deadline
Deadline to apply is December 20
NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 21, 2024 – NRCS Tennessee has announced December 20 as the cutoff date for disaster assistance applications submitted for Fiscal Year 2025 funding through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. NRCS Tennessee will administer ACT NOW authority for EQIP to process eligible applications.
This application signup is limited to agricultural producers in the following counties: Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington. Additional designations may be made if warranted by the results of further damage assessments.
Applicable practices under this signup will be limited to the following practices: Access Control (472), Channel Bed Stabilization (584), Clearing and Snagging (326), Critical Area Planting (342), Fencing (382), Grade Stabilization Structure (410), Grassed Waterway (412), Lined Waterway or Outlet (468), Mulching (484), Obstruction Removal (500), Pasture and Hay Planting (512), Riparian Forest Buffer (391), Stream Crossing (578), Streambank and Shoreline Protection (580), Tree Shrub Establishment (612), Tree Shrub Site Preparation (490), Woody Residue Treatment (384).
ACT NOW allows NRCS to immediately approve and obligate a ranked eligible application in a designated ranking pool when the application meets or exceeds a state-determined minimum ranking threshold score. This eliminates the previous need to wait for all applications to be reviewed and preapproved within a ranking pool.
NRCS accepts applications on a continual basis, and applications received after a cutoff date will automatically be considered during future funding cycles.
For more information about this announcement, please contact Garrett Morris, ASTC-Programs at garrett.morris@usda.gov or contact the NRCS service office supporting your area of the state.
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Please visit the NRCS Tennessee website here.
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