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Poultry Litter Transfer Incentive - New Program Begins(Information on locating eligible and ineligible areas for the incentive is noted below.)The Oklahoma Conservation Commission is once again providing an incentive program to help defray the cost for hauling poultry waste (litter) out of the Illinois River and Spavinaw Creek watersheds. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has provided to the Conservation Commission a grant of $370,000 for the program. The time period of the program will be until the money runs out. The new program begins Aug. 1, 2008, and will provide transportation incentive for all litter delivered after that date so long as the request for payment is pre-approved. The previous program, modeled after a program by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service to move animal waste, ended in May. The information required of the applicant and the application form will remain the same as in the previous program, but there are some changes in the operation of the program. To be guaranteed payment of the incentive, all buyers of litter must have their request for payment pre-approved through their local conservation district office before their litter has been ordered. The conservation district will then seek pre-approval from the Water Quality Division of the Conservation Commission before the application can be approved. As before, pre-approval must be in writing and attached to each claim when submitted. Pre-approvals will expire six months after they are granted. At that time, a buyer may apply for a six-month extension but if they fail to do so, the money assigned to them will be re-obligated to another buyer. If a buyer orders litter without getting pre-approval, he may apply for it after the litter has been purchased but payment is not guaranteed as all the money may already be obligated to others who have already made application. The new program will only pay $.03/ton/loaded mile instead of the previous higher rate. The cap will remain at $8.00/ton. This means that litter transport incentive extends up to a maximum distance of 266 miles. A purchaser whose litter is transported more than 266 miles must pay the full cost of any transport beyond 266 miles. Conservation districts will still receive a per ton fee for all the claims they process. Beginning Aug. 1 all buyers that participated and were pre-approved for the previous litter hauling program and still have not filed claims for the incentive, must reapply at their conservation district office and request pre-approval under the new program at the new rate. Funding for the previous program is exhausted and the new program is their only alternative. A $10,000 cap applies to each purchaser of litter regardless of whether they applied for the incentive under the previous grant, the current one or a combination of the two. For purposes of this grant, a purchaser is a farm or ranching operation. Family members who all live on the same operation and apply for and receive funding are governed by one $10,000 cap the same as a single individual. Other requirements remaining from the earlier program are:
A directory of locations and telephone numbers of the state’s 88 local conservation districts is available online at http://www.ok.gov/okcc/Directory/Directory_of_Conservation_District_Offices. Ineligible AreasThe incentive cannot be collected for poultry litter spread in the area of nutrient-limited watersheds or areas designated as those with high or very high vulnerability of groundwater to pollution from surface activities. Maps of nutrient-limited watersheds and more details on the program can be found online at Litter Ineligible Areas Unofficial Map. PLEASE NOTE: This link goes to an unofficial list of nutrient-limited watersheds. There is no guarantee of accuracy implied. For the most up-to-date information, please contact the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Water Quality Division, at 405-530-8800, http://www.owrb.ok.gov/. See the county maps below for exact location information on the ineligible areas. Clicking on any map title will navigate to a pdf format map of the county with areas that are not eligible for the incentive payment shaded in pink. Adair County |
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