C34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 2,1980
BY SHEILA MILLER
HARRISBURG - Far
mers living in the Conestoga
Creek watershed in Lan
caster County, along with
then: neighboring fanners m
the Tulpehocken Creek
watershed in Berks County,
may be in for some ad
ditional funds from the U.S.
government.
As a result of applications
submitted by the Soil and
Water Conservation
Districts in each county,
these two watersheds are in
the running for a slice of $5O
HARRISBURG - The
Harrisburg Field Office of
the Soil Conservation Ser
vice has recently welcomed
additional personnel to serve
the conservation needs of
Dauphin County. Sand
Swank, an SCS Conservation
Techmcian and Laurie
Williams, a Soil Conserva
tionist under the Dauphin
County CETA Program, will
be assisting Joel Myers,
District Conservationist..
Sand Swank, a native of
Danville, served as a student
trainee in Mercer County
and as a conservation aid in
York County.
A graduate of Danville
High School in 1973, he at
tended Penn State at Univer
sity Park for years. He is
now attending a PSU branch
campus part tune in order to the
obtain a degree in General p-E-T.A. program. She will
Agriculture. “6 assisting in Dauphin
Sande and his wife County while receiving
Marilyn will be locating in training in the field of con
the Colonial Park area in the servation.
near future. Laune graduated from
Laurie Williams of Collie in 1975 with
Piketown, recently joined ma J° rs m biology and
the SCS staff as a Soil Con- Phenology. For two years
she wa= a professional Girl
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What’s happening to
million appropriated by
Congress for conservation
work to improve water
quality.
According to Walter
Peechatca, director of the
State Conservation Com
mission, the $5O million has
been set up as a nationwide
sum and mil have to be spht
up among 50 states. He
added that all ad
ministrative costs for the
Rural Clean Water
Program, also referred to as
the 208 program, will come
Two conservationists
Dauphin
join
left, and Laurie Williams, center,
have recently joined the SCS staff in Dauphin Co
.hey will be working under the direction of Joel
Myers, right.
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off the top, with about $4O
million being left for actual
conservation measures.
The 208 program has not
emerged without con
troversy, which has caused a
delay, not only in its getting
off the ground, but also m
budgeting funds for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
agencies.
Originally, the bill that set
up the program called for 208
to be administered through
the Soil Conservation Ser
vice. SCS was to provide the
Co. SCS
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Scout serving the Colonial
Park area as well as Perry
County and the northern
reaches of Dauphin County.
She has also worked as a
counsellor for juvenile delin
quents.
Laurie is looking forward
to a future in the field of con
servation.
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Rural Clean Water?
technical and financial roles
in assisting farmers to
improve their water quality.
Last Fall, a turn-about
occurred which gave the
financial responsibility to
SCS’s sister agency, the
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service.
ASCS currently handles the
financial end of the
Agricultural Conservation
Program.
In the interim between
these changes, SCS had
accepted a number of county
applications. These were
sent down the road to
Washington, D.C. for con
sideration and approval.
Even though the agency
running the funds has
changed, those original
applications are still valid.
Dick Penet, the state
director for ASCS, told
Lancaster Fanning, the
price tag on the Conestoga
Creek watershed amounted
to $l6 million. Considering
that this application was one
of sixty-four in the nation,
and represents a quarter of
the total funds, Penet said he
felt its chances of being
funded in full were small.
He mentioned a sub-basm
of the Conestoga might stand
a better chance for funding
this year. This sub-basm,
Indian Run, was submitted
with a dollar figure of $1.9
million.
The Berks County ap
plication also has a high cost
estimate, equalling $l4
million total, with an ASCS
cost of $9 million.
Penet explained ASCS
funds approximately 65 per
cent of the cost of con
servation practices on the
average. He pointed out that
m order to get over 50 per
cent cost-share funding, it
will require ASC national
approval. ~
Where did the project
price tags come from? Penet
pointed out a local com
mittee surveyed the con
servation needs of the
watersheds and projected
the costs. The committee
called on the export advice
of private industry, other
agencies, planning com
missions, township super
visors, and farm
organizations.
Penet remarked if one of
the project applications m
Pennsylvania is funded, he
considers it fortunate. He
noted that his agency will
concentrate on the project
area, and if needed, a shift in
personnel would be carried
out to get the project com
pleted. Penet also called for
a total commitment by all
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The national coordinating
committee is scheduled to
meet this month to review
and approve this year’s
projects. The final
regulation for the program
will only come out on
January 24. Penet said the
proposed regulations were
printed in the Federal
Register on December 21 of
last year, but a 30 day public
review is required before
they can be final.
The 208 program appears
to be making some head
way, but it still is a long way
from being organized and
ready to go for farmers in
southeastern Pa.
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