National Water Quality Initiative - Approved Land Use Types, Resource Concerns and Practice List for Fiscal Year 2012

Animals: Fish and Wildlife

• Inadequate Water
• T&E Species: Declining Species, Species of Concern
• Threatened and Endangered Fish and Wildlife Species

Water Quantity

• Insufficient Flows in Water Courses

Approved Practice List

The following is a complete list of core and supporting practices eligible for financial assistance through the National Water Quality Initiative.

Core conservation practices are critical to addressing the targeted resource concern(s) and achieving the desired environmental outcome(s) for the National Water Quality Initiative. All conservation plans selected for financial assistance through the National Water Quality Initiative must include documentation that an alternative containing the core practices was presented to the decision-maker. Every application and contract developed for this initiative must include at least one of the applicable core practices.

Supporting practices are those practices needed to make the core practices function properly or to address a specific site or condition related to the identified resource concern(s).