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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Job Sheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

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**Enhancement Activities**

CSP offers the opportunity to reward or encourage activities that
address air quality and atmospheric change issues related to
agricultural operations.

**Benefits**

These activities will provide observable improvements in air quality by
reducing: airborne odors from animal production and waste management,
utilization, and disposal.

**CSP Payments**

A participant can earn payments by initiating or maintaining any of the
following activities:

-   Use biofilters on animal buildings to filter exhausts

-   Utilize dry scrubbers to treat exhaust gases from animal buildings

-   Utilize an approved feed management system using animal nutrition
    planning for odor control

-   Install windbreaks around facilities to disrupt wind flow and dilute
    concentrations of odorous substances in the air, and intercept and
    filter odorous substances in the air

-   Inject waste 2 inches or more below soil surface or incorporate
    applied waste within 24 hours

-   Use odor-control additives in manure storage structures and areas

-   Conduct an on-farm odor assessment at your facility

**CSP Enhancement Activity Task Sheet**

**Air Resources: Agricultural Odor**

**Client's Acknowledgement Statement:**

I have elected to use the following Air Resource Management activities
and understand the requirements of the selected activities (Check all
that apply):

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  **□**   Use biofilters on animal buildings to filter exhausts (Odor-01)

  **□**   Utilize dry scrubbers to treat exhaust gases from animal buildings
          (Odor-02)

  **□**   Utilize an approved feed management system using animal nutrition
          planning for odor control (Odor-03)

  **□**   Install windbreaks around facilities to disrupt wind flow and
          dilute concentrations of odorous substances in the air, and
          intercept and filter odorous substances in the air (Odor-04)

  **□**   Inject waste 2 inches or more below soil surface or incorporate
          applied waste within 24 hours (Odor-05)

  **□**   Use odor-control additives in manure storage structures and areas
          (Odor-06)

  **□**   Conduct an on-farm odor assessment at your facility (Odor-07)
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I agree that the following information will be provided to NRCS upon
request:

Written documentation of the activity preformed (use attached worksheets
or equivalent).

Copies of dated receipts for equipment or services purchased.

I understand that CSP Enhancements earnings are subject to payment caps
and that my actual payments will depend on my CSP Tier level, the land
area affected and the number of activities.

I understand that it is my responsibility to obtain all necessary
permits and to comply with all laws, regulations and ordinances
pertaining to the application of these activities.

Accepted by: /s/
\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Date:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XX/cubic feet per minute air flow treated

A biofilter is a layer of organic material (woodchips, straw, compost,
or other organic material) through which odorous air from an animal
building is passed. Microbes in the organic material convert odorous
compounds to carbon dioxide and water. For a complete description of
biofilter function, design, and operation criteria, see **Schmidt,
Janni, and Nicolai, 2004, Biofilter Design Information, Biosystems and
Agricultural Engineering Update 18, University of Minnesota Extension
Service (http://www.manure.umn.edu/assets/baeu18.pdf).**

-   Attach design criteria and specifications, and operational
    specifications, for the biofilter specific to your operation.
    Include photographs of functioning biofilters on buildings at your
    operation

Briefly describe your animal operation (including number of animals,
type of facility, and biofilter placement) and your evaluation of the
effectiveness of the biofilters to reduce odors coming off your
operation:

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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XX/cubic feet per minute air flow treated

-   Attach design criteria and specifications, and operational
    specifications, for the dry scrubber specific to your operation.
    Include photographs of functioning dry scrubbers on buildings at
    your operation.

Briefly describe your animal operation (including number of animals,
type of facility, and dry scrubber placement) and your evaluation of the
effectiveness of the dry scrubber to reduce odors coming off your
operation:

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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XX/animal unit equivalent

Feed management / animal nutrition planning controls the inputs to
animals, which reduces undigested or partially digested compounds,
reducing chemical concentrations in manure, and reducing the potential
for odor emissions from animals and their manure.

-   Attach receipts showing purchase of feed rations which can control
    animal odor, and provide a copy of a feed management plan which
    utilizes feed rations which reduce animal and manure odor

Briefly describe your animal operation (including number of animals,
type of facility, and feed management plan) and your evaluation of the
effectiveness of the feed management to reduce odors coming off your
operation:

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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XX/treated animal unit equivalent

\$XX/100 ft of windbreak

Tree windbreaks can reduce odors emitted from confined livestock and
manure storage facilities. Windbreaks can help mix the odorous compounds
vertically in the air by disrupting airflows around animal facilities;
they can also intercept solid and liquid particles carrying odorous
compounds on leaves and needles, serving as a filter to reduce the
amount of odor being carried in the air.

-   Attach a drawing or aerial photograph of the operation showing the
    placement of animal and waste storage facilities, and position of
    windbreaks and provide photographs of the positioning of windbreaks
    in relation to the animal and waste facilities

Briefly describe your animal operation (including type and number of
animals, type of waste storage, and windbreak placement) and your
evaluation of the effectiveness of the windbreaks to reduce odors coming
off your operation:

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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XX/treated acre

Directly incorporating solid, or injecting liquid animal waste into
topsoil significantly decreases odor emissions, and can have additional
fertilization benefits.

Use the table below to document dates, treatment acres, waste type, and
method (solid incorporation or liquid injection).

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  Field Name     Date           \# Acres       Waste Type     Method

                                                              

                                                              

                                                              

                                                              

                                                              

                                                              

                                                              

                                                              

                 TOTAL ACRES:                                 
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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XX/animal unit equivalent

Odor control additives are combined with manure to reduce production of
odorous compounds from the manure. Many additives are an enzyme- or
bacteria-based treatment which enhances bacterial populations in the
animal waste. Some additives counteract chemical compounds which can
cause odor; others absorb or adsorb chemical compounds, or serve as
deodorants to mask the generated odors.

-   Attach receipts showing purchase of manure additives which can
    control animal odor

-   Provide copy of a manure additive plan which utilizes additives to
    reduce manure odor

Briefly describe your animal operation, including number of animals,
manure storage facilities, type and quantity of odor control additives
you use, and your evaluation of the effectiveness of odor control
additives to reduce odors coming off your operation:

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![](media/image2.png){width="1.3763888888888889in"
height="0.41388888888888886in"} **CSP Worksheet**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**Natural Resources Conservation Service**

Payment: \$XXXX/assessment

An on farm odor assessment looks at a producer's pork, dairy, poultry or
beef operation to identify potential odor sources, existing odor control
measures, and suggest further activities to control odor emissions and
transport from the facility. The assessment shall be conducted by a
certified third party with experience in odor and odor control
associated with an animal production facility. The assessment will
evaluate the operation, including its production and waste storage
facilities, identify potential odor sources, and evaluate the
effectiveness of any existing odor control practices at the facility.

-   Attach the certified report generated from the odor assessment for
    your facility