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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 particulate matter from agricultural operations,
feedlots, and transportation. These activities will also help to reduce
particulate matter generation from wind erosion events.

**CSP Payments**

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

-   Utilize residue management, conservation tillage, strip cropping,
    cover crops, or herbaceous wind barriers to reduce dust generation
    and emissions from agricultural fields

-   Reduce travel on unpaved roads, or treat unpaved roads with dust
    suppressant

-   Manage prescribed burning to reduce particulate matter generation

-   Replace smudge pots with clean powered burners or wind machines

-   Replace burning of orchard residues with chipping, grinding, or
    shredding

-   Install, maintain, and enhance windbreaks to protect fields from
    erosive winds

-   Handle animal mortality offsite at an approved incineration
    facility, or with an approved incinerator

-   Use feed management to reduce nitrogen emissions from animal waste

-   Remove manure from feedlot pens, and sprinkle water over the pens to
    reduce dust generation

-   Utilize implements which combine operations to reduce the number of
    trips across a field

**CSP Enhancement Activity Task Sheet**

**Air Resources: Particulate Matter**

**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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  **□**   Utilize residue management, conservation tillage, strip cropping,
          cover crops, or herbaceous wind barriers to reduce dust generation
          and emissions from agricultural fields (PM-01)

  **□**   Reduce travel on unpaved roads, or treat unpaved roads with dust
          suppressant (PM-02)

  **□**   Manage prescribed burning to reduce particulate matter (PM-03)

  **□**   Replace smudge pots with clean powered burners or wind machines
          (PM-04)

  **□**   Replace burning of orchard residues with chipping, grinding, or
          shredding (PM‑05)

  **□**   Install, maintain, and enhance windbreaks to protect fields from
          erosive winds (PM-06)

  **□**   Handle animal mortality offsite at an approved incineration
          facility, or with an approved incinerator (PM-07)

  **□**   Use feed management to reduce nitrogen emissions from animal waste
          (PM-08)

  **□**   Remove manure from feedlot pens, and sprinkle water over the pens
          to reduce dust generation (PM-09)

  **□**   Utilize implements which combine operations to reduce the number of
          trips across a field (PM-10)
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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/treated acre

Vegetative cover and residues provide protection at the soil surface to
wind speed and wind erosive force; and wind barriers interrupt wind flow
downwind of the barrier, reducing wind erosive force and offsite
movement of dust from fields. Wind barriers can also intercept dust in
the air on the downwind side of the field, reducing the amount of
airborne dust leaving the edge of the field.

-   Attach certification that your conservation tillage system meets the
    requirement of providing for 30% residue cover over the soil surface
    at planting

-   Attach certification that your conservation tillage system results
    in a 50% reduction in the number of passes with equipment over all
    fields

-   Provide photographic evidence of strip cropping and/or herbaceous
    wind barriers perpendicular to the prevailing erosive wind

-   Provide certification or photographic evidence of cover crops during
    non-cropping periods

Briefly describe your tillage and planting system (including maintaining
wind barriers) and your evaluation of its effectiveness:

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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 100 square feet

Vehicles traveling on unpaved roads produce more dust the farther and
faster they travel. Reducing the amount and speed of traffic on unpaved
roads will control dust emissions from the road. Dust suppressants (road
oil, other liquid products, or solid emulsifiers) keep road material in
aggregates which are large enough to not be entrained in the air.

-   Attach receipt showing payment for application of dust suppressant
    or certification of self-application

-   Provide evidence of sticker in vehicles instructing drivers to
    operate the vehicles below a specified speed when on non-paved roads

-   Provide certification of reduced travel distance on unpaved roads

Briefly describe your dust suppressant application and your traffic and
speed reduction plan and your evaluation of its effectiveness:

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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

When managed properly, prescribed burning can be done to minimize
emission and transport of particulate matter to neighboring populated
areas.

-   Provide documentation of weather conditions under which prescribed
    burn was carried out

-   Provide photographic documentation of smoke plume movement

-   Provide certification of full implementation of prescribed burn plan

Briefly describe how the prescribed burn was carried out, including
efforts undertaken to minimize transport of particulate matter to
residences/roads/congested areas:

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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/smudge pot replaced

Smudge pots are used in orchards, and fruit and vegetable fields to
provide radiant heating and thus minimize crop damage from frost and
freezing temperatures. Smudge pot emissions are can contain high
concentrations of particulate matter. These can be replaced with clean
burners and/or fans which protect crops by breaking up inversions which
trap the coldest air near the ground surface.

-   Attach receipt of purchase of clean burner and/or wind machines, and
    include photographic documentation of installation

-   Provide certification of number of smudge pots replaced

Briefly describe the type of burners or wind machines purchased and your
evaluation of their effectiveness:

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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/100 lbs of organic matter

Chipping, grinding, or shredding orchard prunings reduces particulate
matter generation from the common practice of burning the prunings. The
product of the chipping can also be used as mulch in the orchards, or
possibly sold as mulch to outside customers.

-   Attach receipt of purchase of chipping, grinding, and/or shredding
    machine

-   Include signed form agreeing to replace burning with chipping

-   Provide certification of number of lbs of mulch produced or sold

Briefly describe the type of mulching machines purchased and your
evaluation of their effectiveness:

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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/ 100 ft. of windbreak installed, maintained, or enhanced.

Windbreaks interrupt wind flow downwind of the barrier, reducing wind
erosive force over a field. Windbreaks can also intercept dust in the
air on the downwind side of the field, reducing the amount of airborne
dust leaving the edge of the field.

-   Attach receipt of purchase and installation of windbreak trees

-   Provide map showing location of new windbreak or maintenance and/or
    enhancement of existing windbreak

Briefly describe your evaluation of the effectiveness of the new or
renovated windbreak to control dust from wind erosion:

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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

Animal carcass treatment or disposal should be considered as a component
of a waste management system for livestock or poultry operations. It
applies where on-farm carcass treatment and disposal are permitted by
federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations. Use of an
approved incinerator onsite, or transport of carcasses to an approved
facility will reduce particulate matter generation from dead animal
disposal.

-   Provide documentation transport of carcasses off site, or

-   Provide certification of acceptable incineration (including
    technology to reduce particulate matter generation) onsite

Describe briefly your method of carcass disposal:

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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

Nitrogen from animal waste, particularly in the ammonia form, can lead
to development of airborne nitrogen particles through nitrification of
the ammonia. These particles can contribute to total concentrations of
fine particulate matter (PM\<2.5 micrometers) in the air. Feed
management plans can reduce the ammonia concentration in animal waste,
and reduce animal production contributions to airborne particulate
matter.

-   Provide documentation or a copy of your feed management plan

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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

Animal traffic on dry, compacted manure can be a source of particulate
matter. Removing manure from feedlot pens will reduce the potential of
the animals to kick up dust as they move about. Light sprinkling of
water in cleaned pens will help to minimize dust from remaining manure.
Care must be taken to ensure that watering does not result in increases
in odors from wet manure, nor in increases of ammonia production from
the remaining manure, which can cause increased airborne particulate
matter resulting from nitrogen particulates.

-   Provide documentation (such as an approved schedule or plan) of
    timely manure removal from feedlots

-   Provide photographic evidence and documentation of a water
    sprinkling system in the feedlots

Briefly describe how often you remove manure from the feed lots, and how
often water is used to keep down dust.

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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/reduced trip/acre

Operations which require trips across a field may be combined to reduce
the total number of field trips, reducing potential particulate matter
generation from field trips. Nutrients and pesticides could be applied
simultaneously. Multi-tillage tools can conduct multiple types of
tillage on one pass across the field.

-   Provide documentation of the reduction in the number of trips across
    a field for a year

-   Provide photographic evidence of the implements which combine
    operations