’77 Is Conservation Deadline
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sedimentation control plans for each farm
are to be prepared by a person trained and
experienced in erosion and sedimentation
control methods and techniques. The law
does not stipulate the kind of training and
experience required by the people who
draw up the plans.
Soil specialists with the Soil and Con
servation Service, an arm of the USDA
which works very closely with state and
local governments, are the most obvious
people to do this kind of work. However, in
Lancaster County alone there are some
6000 farms, only 1500 of which have
completed conservation plans. The local
SCS has a considerable backlog of farm
conservation plans to be completed.
Too, an increased work load is being
heaped onto the local office by municipal
governments trying to cope with an ex
plosion in environmental legislation
Nationally, the SCS is faced with a lack of
funds and a reduction in its staff
Outside the SCS, there are very few soil
conservation specialists working
anywhere, including civil engineering firms
Orval Bass, director of the local SCS office,
said his group plans educational sessions
on soil conservation with local civil
engineers and municipal governments.
Engineers and township supervisors,
however, would not be trained to prepare
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10,1973
farm conservation plans. There will con
tinue to come from Bass’ office. Bass ad
vised farmers who want conservation
plans to contact him as soon as possible,
because it may be a long time before the
plans can be drawn up
While the law does say something about
the qualifications of the people who will be
preparing conservation plans, it mentions
nothing about the people who install
conservation practices This, too, is a
difficult job calling for special skills.
A spokesman for DER’s Bureau of Water
Quality Control, told LANCASTER FAR
MING that he thought farmers would be
able to install their own conservation
practices He said he hadn’t realized that it
was a difficult thing to do He also said that
he had never heard of REAP (Rural En
vironmental Assistance Program), which
has been one of the best-publicized victims
of the administration’s budget cutting
There is a shortage of conservation
contractors, a fact which is expected to
hinder the installation of conservation
practices on farms in Lancaster County
If farmers can get plans for their farms,
and if they can get contractors to help
them implement those plans, they will still
be faced with the problem of paying for the
work REAP is dead but not forgotten
Some observers feel that REAP may yet be
the Lazarus that makes the administration
a believer in the Congressional prerogative
to spend the money it appropriates A new
REAP bill has passed the House and is
expected to go through the Senate, too
If the President vetoes the bill, and if
Congress cannot then override that veto, a
lawsuit is expected to bring the matter into
the courts If REAP stays dead, there will
likely be no conservation aid to farmers,
either from the federal or state govern
ments REAP had been paying up to 80
percent of the cost of installing con
servation practices
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