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Environmental Quality Incentives Program

The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides technical and financial assistance to agricultural producers to address soil, water, air, and related natural resource concerns on their operations. USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) delivers the program.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Budget requests are explicitly tied to the accomplishment of goals and objectives. NRCS has strengthened the program's budget and performance integration. NRCS will make further improvements by revising its state funding allocation formula to better reflect program priorities.
  • NRCS needs to improve its financial management practices, particularily the timely resolution of open obligations and the consistency of contract modifications.
  • The program has identified long-term performance measures that address natural resource conditions. NRCS needs to review its annual measures to ensure that they are ambitious and support continuous improvement.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Aligning program priorities with state allocations.
  • Improving financial management practices.
  • Improving soil quality performance measures to reflect actual program results.

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