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True / False
100

This is the form used for all program applications.

What is the NRCS-CPA-1200?

100

This program provides cost share incentives to agricultural producers to address resource concerns on their livestock, agricultural production or private forest land.

What is the Environmental Quality Incentive Program?

100

This resource concern is defined as: feed and forage quality or quantity is inadequate for nutritional needs and production goals.....

What is Trying to Feed a Teenage Boy?

100

This document mirrors the nine steps of planning and documents NRCS compliance with NEPA.

What is the CPA-52?

100

You have to generate at least $2000 in agricultural sales to be eligible for EQIP or CSP.

False

200

This is the form used to create a vendor code for all direct deposit payment?

What is the 1199a?

200

This program helps private landowners, tribes and land trusts protect cropland and grassland on working agricultural lands by limiting non-agricultural uses.

What is the Agricultural Land Easement program?

200

When land use is pasture, this resource concern will meet planning criteria when soil erosion, percent desirable plants, and plant cover indicators have a score of 4 or more on the Pasture Condition Score (PCS).

What is sheet and rill erosion?

200

This electronic collection of technical information is organized into 5 sections and varies from state to state.

What is the electronic field office technical guide?

200

All members of an entity have to file the eligibility forms for highly erodible land and income verification.

True.  All members of an entity must complete the AD-1026 and CCC-941

300

This is the form used to determine highly erodible land and wetland compliance.  

What is the AD-1026?

300

NRCS provides technical assistance only for this program that removes environmentally sensitive land from production.

What is the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)?

300

This resource concern is evaluated using the Stream Visual Assessment Protocol v2 and current NRCS water erosion technology along with planner observation or client input.

What is Sediment Transported to Surface Water?

300

This document is designed to be completed in the field and can be used to measure soil health in crop, forest, range.

What is the In-Field Soil Health Assessment Worksheet?  Bonus - what is used for pasture?

300

For EQIP and CSP, there are 2 levels of eligibility for each application:  applicant eligibility and land eligibility.

True:  The applicant must meet eligibility rules of land control, income and highly erodible & wetland compliance.  The land must meet eligibility of agricultural use and the presence of a resource concern. 

400

This form is sent to the IRS to verify adjusted gross income eligibility.

What is the CCC-941?

400

This program requires that participants meet or exceed additional priority resource concern thresholds and has a split-rate annual payment structure.

What is the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)?

400

These 2 resource concerns are evaluated, in part, by the use of the Windows Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST).

What are Pesticides Transported to Groundwater & Pesticides Transported to Surface Water?

400

This document provides guidance on how the application of a conservation practice will affect resources and resource concerns.

What is the Conservation Practice Physical Effects (CPPE)?

500

This is the most important form in any case file.

What is the conservation assistance notes (CPA-6)?
500

This program is partner driven and contains an entire alphabet soup of acronyms and 3 levels of eligibility.

What is the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)?

-RCPP-AFA

-RCPP Classic

-RCPP EQIP, CSP

500

When land use is range, this resource concern will meet planning criteria when the indicator scores for bare ground, compaction, surface aggregate stability, plant diversity, plant recovery, biotic crusts, surface organic matter depletion, and insects/animals are all rated 5 or have a cumulative score of greater than or equal to 24.

What is Soil Organism Habitat Loss or Degradation?

500

This document defines resource concerns, assessment methods to determine if planning criteria is met and objectives in treating resource concerns.

What is the National Resource Concern List and Planning Criteria?  updated May of 2026

500

The LincPass is easy to obtain and maintain.

Ha!