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["Draft Agricultural Verification Protocol Concept Version 3.2"]
["Chesapeake Bay Program Agriculture Workgroup (AgWG)"]
["October 11. 2012"]
["Ag Protocol Category","Assessment Method","Conservation Practice Category",null,null,"Cost-Shared Information",{"$nulls":3},"Other BMP Information",{"$nulls":3},"Verification Methodology","Verification Issues","Relative Benefit","Relative Cost","Data Confidence "]
[null,null,"Annual BMPs","Structural BMPs","Management BMPs","Federal C/S","State C/S","NGO C/S","Private Funded","Meets Specs","Functional Equivalent","Almost : provides benefits, but needs work to meet specs.","Installation Date"]
["Permit Programs","Verification by compliance with federal NPDES (CAFO) or state agricultural permit program requirements.","All BMPs","All BMPs","All BMPs","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Maybe","Through record checks.","Through on-site permit compliance inspections by trained agency personnel.","Frequency of compliance inspections during permit life span.","High","High","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Financial Incentive Programs","Verification by compliance with federal or state program contractural requirements.","All BMPs","All BMPs","All BMPs","Yes","Yes","Maybe","No","Yes","No","No","Through record checks.","Through on-site compliance inspections by trained agency personnel.","Frequency of compliance inspections during contractual life span.","High","High","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Inventory","Farm inventory by trained federal, state, and/or county agency personnel.","All BMPs","All BMPs","All BMPs","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Through record checks","Through on-site visit by trained personnel while collecting data, check databases.","Accredited data source through training/certification. ","High","High","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Inventory","Farm inventory by trained independent third-party personnel.","All BMPs","All BMPs","All BMPs","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Record checks may be possible.","Through on-site visit by trained personnel while collecting data, check databases.","Accredited data source through training/certification. ","High","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Inventory","Farm inventory by trained agricultural industry personnel.","All BMPs","All BMPs","All BMPs","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Record checks may not be possible.","Through on-site visit by trained personnel while collecting data, check databases.","Accredited data source through training/certification. ","Medium","Low","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Inventory","Farmer completes self-certified inventory survey and trained federal, state and/or county personnel visit site to confirm.","All BMPs","All BMPs","All BMPs","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","At onsite visit","At onsite visit","At onsite visit.","Through record checks.","Through on-site visit by trained personnel.","% of checks determines acceptance of some practices.","High to Medium","Low","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Inventory","Farmer completes in-office self-certified inventory with trained federal, state and/or county agency personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Must check records to verify.","Farmer certified during the visit at USDA or governmental office.","Farmer Self certification with Professional Assistance","Low","Low","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Inventory","Farmer completes self-certified inventory survey.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Must check records to verify."," By Farmer self certification when submitted.","Wide variance in knowledge of farmers.","Low","Low","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Office Records","Review of existing office records by trained federal, state and/or county agency personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Yes","Yes","Maybe","Only by elimination","Yes","No","No","Yes","Trained personnel verify through knowledge of the farm or through calls made to the farmer.","Misses many non C/S practices.","Medium","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Records","Review of existing on-farm records by trained federal, state and/or county agency personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Yes","Yes","Maybe","Only by elimination","Yes","No","No","Yes","Trained personnel verify through knowledge of the farm or through calls made to the farmer.","Misses many non-C/S practices","Medium","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Records","Review of existing on-farm records by trained independent third-party personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Yes","Yes","Maybe","Only by elimination","Yes","No","No","Yes","Trained personnel verify through knowledge of the farm or through calls made to the farmer.","Misses many non C/S practices","Medium","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Farm Records","Review of existing on-farm records by trained agricultural industry personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Yes","Yes","Maybe","Only by elimination","Yes","No","No","Yes","Trained personnel verify through knowledge of the farm or through calls made to the farmer.","Misses many non C/S practices.","Medium","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Transect Survey","Transect completed by trained personnel on a County or Watershed scale.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Yes","Maybe","No","No, must check records to determine.","Verified by the trained personnel completing the transect on the ground.","Can only determine existence and quality of practices not source of funding.","Medium","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["CEAP Survey","CEAP survey conducted in-person at field-level with NASS trained personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","NASS certification procedures.","Availability of data at required scale.","High","High","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["NASS Survey","NASS survey conducted via survey with trained personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","No","No","No","No","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","NASS certification procedures.","Availablity of data at required scale.","High","High","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["Aerial Photography Remote Sensing","Remote Sensing or Field Visit to the points.","TBD","TBD","TBD","No","No","No","No","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","Verification can be same as Aerial Remote Sensing method or by visit to each site to collect and certify data.","Availablity of data at required scale, resolution, and timing.","Medium","Medium","Meets or exceeds 80%"]
["NRI Point or some other statistically selected sites","Statistical survey conducted in-person at field-level with NASS trained personnel.","TBD","TBD","TBD","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","NASS certification procedures.","Availablity of data at required scale.","High","High","Meets or exceeds 80%"]

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