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Emergency Watershed Protection Program

The Emergency Watershed Protection Program undertakes emergency measures to: (1) relieve imminent hazards to life and property created by natural disasters, and (2) alleviate future flood risk. Activities include: installing practices that reduce soil erosion and control excess water and purchasing easements.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has improved its program management. NRCS has: (1) revised its EWP regulation to increase program effectiveness; (2) developed State Emergency Recovery Plans that allow for rapid response; (3) improved its coordination with other emergency assistance agencies; and (4) addressed actions expressed in a number of internal and external evaluations.
  • The program may be prevented from responding in a timely or adequate manner to emergency recovery needs because it does not have a regular, predictable source of funding. Ad hoc disaster supplemental appropriations result in NRCS treating the problem months after the disaster strikes and make tying accomplishments to budget requests a moot issue.
  • NRCS has not demonstrated adequate progress in achieving its annual and long-term performance goals. While NRCS has adopted long-term and annual performance goals in FY 2006, it has not provided evidence on its progress towards meeting its goals.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Updating the program manual to provide guidance on how to implement a cost effective and efficient program.
  • Improving data management to increase program accountability and efficiency, improve financial reporting, and increase cost-effectiveness.

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