Finally, participants are permitted to allow fee hunting. NRCS is responsible for most of the technical aspects, including determining land eligibility, evaluating the environmental benefits of land offered for enrollment, developing technical specifications for practices and writing most conservation plans. The U.S. Forest Service and state foresters are responsible for writing tree planting and management plans. State Technical Committees have an important advisory role in setting state policies, proposing state CPAs, developing state ranking schemes for bids, setting guidelines for protecting cover, etc. FSA County Committees have implementation, monitoring and oversight responsibilities at the local level, with NRCS technical input and concurrence.
Conservation districts have approval authority for conservation plans.
CRP is authorized to have a maximum of 36.4 million acres enrolled at any one time. The program generally offers contracts of 10 to 15 years, but also has authority to utilize easements in certain situations. USDA has created two versions of CRP the traditional CRP and the continuous sign-up CRP . The traditional CRP enrolls large acreages in irregularly scheduled, periodic national sign-ups. Sign-ups generally are widely publicized but lead time varies from only a couple of weeks to several months.