Mr. Secretary: Withdraw this rule

The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) disseminated a release which claimed the rulemaking would clarify how USDA “…delineates, determines, and certifies wetlands located on subject land in a manner sufficient for making determinations of ineligibility for certain USDA program bene...

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Published inSoutheast Farm Press
Main Author Baise, Gary
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Clarksdale Penton Media, Inc., Penton Business Media, Inc. and their subsidiaries 20.02.2019
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Subjects
Farmers
Hydrology
Laws, regulations and rules
Natural resource conservation
Retirement benefits
Trump, Donald J
Vegetation
Wetlands
United States > US
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ISSN0194-0937
2161-9212

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Summary:The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) disseminated a release which claimed the rulemaking would clarify how USDA “…delineates, determines, and certifies wetlands located on subject land in a manner sufficient for making determinations of ineligibility for certain USDA program benefits.” The rule sets forth language from the U.S. Corps of Engineers’ Manual of 1987 detailing three levels of work which should be undertaken by NRCS personnel to determine if your farm is a wetland. Other indicators of a wetland: water marks on any vegetation, sediment deposits such as thin coatings of silt or organic material, drift deposits such as “rafted debris or litter”, an algal map or crust, iron deposits, surface soil cracks such as cracks in clay soils, sparsely vegetated concave surfaces, drainage patterns, wetland hydrology indicators such as aquatic invertebrates, marl deposits, hydrogen sulfide odor, oxidized rhizospheres along living roots, recent iron reduction in tilled soils, saturation visible on aerial imagery, shallow aquitards, sphagnum moss and, get this -- even water stained leaves.
ISSN:0194-0937
2161-9212