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["Draft Agricultural Verification Protocol Concept Version 3.5.3"]
["Chesapeake Bay Program Agriculture Workgroup (AgWG)"]
["February 14, 2013"]
["For all agricultural BMP verification protocol categories, verification procedures must be established that demonstrate an 80% (or greater) confidence level that the subject BMP has been implemented, is currently operational and is being maintained to meet the BMP definition for standards and requirements."]
["Annual BMPs: Cover Crops; Commodity Cover Crops; Conservation Tillage / Interim BMPs-"]
["Structural BMPs: Animal waste management system; Barnyard runoff control; Biofilters; Lagoon covers; Loafing lot management; Mortality composters; Non-urban stream restoration: shoreline erosion control; Off-steam watering w/o fencing; Stream access control with fencing; Pasture alternate watering systems; Soil conservation & water quality plan elements; Water control structures; Wetland restoration / Interim BMPs- Dirt & gravel road erosion & sediment control; Non-urban steam restoration; P sorbing materials in Ag ditches;   "]
["Management BMPs- Plans: Enhanced nutrient management; Horse pasture management; Nutrient management; Precision Intensive rotational grazing; Prescribed grazing; Soil conservation & water quality plans / Interim BMPs- Nutrient management as BMP only   "]
["Management BMPs- Practices: Alternate crops; Continuous no-till; Dairy precision feeding; Decision agriculture; Forest buffers; Grass buffers; Land retirement; Poultry litter transport; Poultry litter treatment; Poultry Phytase; Steam-side forest buffers; Stream-side grass buffers; Stream-side forest buffers; Stream-side wetland restoration; Swine Phytase; Tree planting / Interim BMPs- Cropland irrigation management; Dairy manure injection; Irrigation water capture reuse; No-till; Poultry litter injection; Tree planting: vegetative environmental buffers- poultry;   "]
["Agricultural BMP Verification Protocol Category","Assessment Method","Conservation Practice Category",{"$nulls":3},"Cost-Sharing Information",{"$nulls":3},"Other BMP Information",{"$nulls":3},"Verification Methodology","Verification Issues","Relative Scientific Defensibility","Relative Accountability ","Relative Transparency"]
[null,null,"Annual BMPs","Structural BMPs","Management BMPs: Plans","Management BMPs: Practices","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"]
["1.) Permit Issuing Programs","Verified compliance with federal NPDES (CAFO) or state agricultural operational permit program requirements.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","High"]
["2.) Regulatory Programs","Verified compliance with federal or state agricultural regulatory requirements (non-operational permit).","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Yes","Maybe","Through record checks.","Through on-site regulatory compliance inspections by trained agency personnel.","Frequency and percent coverage of regulatory compliance inspections.","High","High","Medium"]
["3.) Financial Incentive Programs","Verified compliance with federal or state program contractual requirements.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Yes","Yes","Maybe","No","Yes","No","No","Through record checks.","Through on-site contractual compliance inspections by trained agency personnel.","Frequency of compliance inspections during contractual life span.","High","High","High"]
["4.) Farm Inventory","Farm inventory by trained and certified federal, state, and/or county agency personnel.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","Medium"]
["5.) Farm Inventory","Farm inventory by trained and certified independent third-party personnel.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","High","Medium"]
["6.) Farm Inventory","Farm inventory by trained and certified agricultural consultant personnel.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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. ","High","High","Medium"]
["7.) Farm Inventory","Farmer completes self-certified inventory survey and trained and certified federal, state and/or county personnel visit site to confirm.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","High","Medium"]
["8.) Farm Inventory","Farmer completes in-office self-certified inventory with trained and certified federal, state and/or county agency personnel.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","Feasible","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","Medium","Medium","Medium"]
["9.) Farm Inventory","Farmer with training and certification completes self-certified inventory survey.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Must check records to verify.","Farmer trained and certified by governmental agency.","Farmer self-certification with training and certification.","Medium","Medium","Low"]
["10.) Farm Inventory","Farmer completes self-certified inventory survey.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","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","Low"]
["11.) Office Records","Review of existing office records by trained and certified federal, state and/or county agency personnel.","Not Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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.","Identifies formerly contractual BMPs and may miss many non C/S practices.","Medium","Medium","Medium"]
["12.) Farm Records","Review of existing on-farm records by trained and certified federal, state and/or county agency personnel.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","Medium"]
["13.) Farm Records","Review of existing on-farm records by trained and certified independent third-party personnel.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","Medium"]
["14.) Farm Records","Review of existing on-farm records by trained and certified agricultural consultant personnel.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","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","Medium"]
["15.) Transect Survey","Transect completed by trained and certified personnel on a County or Watershed scale.","Feasible: BMP specific (i.e. tillage)","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","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.","High","High","High"]
["16.) CEAP Survey","CEAP survey conducted in-person at field-level with NASS trained and certified personnel.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","NASS certification procedures.","Availability of data at required scale.","High","High","Medium"]
["17.) NASS Survey","NASS survey conducted via survey with trained and certified personnel.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","No","No","No","No","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","NASS certification procedures.","Availability of data at required scale.","High","High","Medium"]
["18.) Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing","Remote Sensing with Field Level Visits to Ground Truth Data.","Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","Not Feasible","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.","Availability of data at required scale, resolution, and timing.","High","High","High"]
["19.) NRI Point (NRCS) or some other statistically selected sites","Statistical survey conducted in-person at field-level with NASS trained and certified personnel.","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Feasible","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","Maybe","No","No","No","No, must check records to determine.","NASS certification procedures.","Availability of data at required scale.","High","High","Medium"]

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