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Attachment A – Request to participate to determine each State’s intent to offer edge-of-field water quality monitoring activities in FY 2014.  Submit one request for each watershed/initiative area in the State.  The following guidance will determine whether a submitted watershed is eligible for national monitoring funds, eligible for State-allocated EQIP funds; or not eligible for monitoring funds in FY 2014. | Unnamed: 1 | Unnamed: 2 | Unnamed: 3
Priority Watersheds:  All requests must be for an established funded priority 12-digit HUC watersheds located within the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI), the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative (CBWI), Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) and Phosphorus Focus Watersheds of the Great Lakes (GL), Lake Champlain (LC), or National Water Quality Initiative Watersheds (NWQI).
 | Note – States may request a waiver for monitoring in additional 12-digit HUC watersheds.  Approved waivers for monitoring outside of the priority geographic areas below may only be considered by using the State’s general EQIP allocation.
Priority Monitoring Data Needs:
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize a conservation system with at least one practice in the Avoid, Control, and [NAME] categories simultaneously.
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize water quality benefits from a system of practices installed over tile drainage production.
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the effect of timing of commercial and manure nutrients and/or the use of amendments/inhibitors on production and nitrogen and phosphorus losses.
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the water quality benefits of cover crops; species selection, and purpose (nutrient capture, erosion protection, and/or soil health).
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the water quality benefits of drainage water management systems and/or bioreactors.
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the water quality benefits of irrigation water management systems and/or rice production systems.
• Edge-of-field monitoring systems that investigate matching buffer or filter width needs with slopes, erodibility, tillage and crop rotations.
National Funding to Support the Monitoring Opportunity:   To be considered a candidate for additional national EQIP funds for monitoring, the State must demonstrate that all three conditions below are met for each proposed watershed: 1) There are sufficient partners or vendors available to assist producers with implementing the criteria outlined in Conservation Activities 201 and 202 AND have experience with edge-of-field and in-stream monitoring using a paired watershed or “above/below” study design. 2) The proposed watershed(s) is located within one of the “Priority Watersheds” listed above. 3) The planned monitoring activity will collect information addressing one or more of the “Priority Monitoring Data Needs” listed above.
State Funding to Support the Monitoring Opportunity: To be authorized to offer funding for monitoring using the State’s general EQIP allocation, the State must demonstrate that the conditions below are met for each proposed watershed: 1) There are sufficient partners or vendors available to assist producers with implementing the criteria outlined in Conservation Activities 201 and 202 AND have experience with edge-of-field and in-stream monitoring using a paired watershed or “above/below” study design.  2) The State received a waiver to monitor outside the agency “Priority Watersheds.” 3) The planned monitoring activity will collect information addressing one or more of the “Priority Monitoring Data Needs” listed above.
Funding for monitoring is not authorized: All other State requests.
State:
NRCS State Contact
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Watershed/Initiative Area:
Check the box next to the applicable watersheds in the State and list the 12-digit hydrologic unit codes for each watershed that will be offered for the monitoring opportunity
Request to Include | Watershed/Initiative Area |  | 12-Digit Hydrologic Unit Codes
 | [NAME] (CBWI) |  | click to enter watersheds
 | Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) |  | click to enter watersheds
 | Lake Champlain (LC) |  | click to enter watersheds
 | Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) and Phosphorus Focus Watersheds of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) |  | click to enter watersheds
 | National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI) – Note only one watershed may be selected per State. |  | click to enter watersheds
 | Other State-Identified Important Watersheds |  | click to enter watersheds
Priority Needs: Please identify which of the following priority monitoring needs are capable of being monitored in the watersheds.
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize water quality benefits from a conservation system with at least one practice in the Avoid, Control, and [NAME] categories simultaneously.
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize water quality benefits from a system of practices installed over tile drainage production.
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the effect of timing of commercial and manure nutrients and/or the use of amendments/inhibitors on production and nitrogen and phosphorus losses.
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the water quality benefits of cover crops; species selection, and purpose (nutrient capture, erosion protection, and/or soil health).
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the water quality benefits of drainage water management systems and/or bioreactors.
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that characterize the water quality benefits of irrigation water management systems and/or rice production systems.
 | Edge-of-field monitoring systems that investigate matching buffer or filter width needs with slopes, erodibility, tillage and crop rotations.
State |  |  | 0
Watershed/Initiative Area |  |  | 0
Ability to Implement Monitoring: Please indicate the State’s ability to implement the edge-of-field water quality monitoring activities
 | Producers within the watershed have easy access to entities/contractors who have demonstrated that they can assist producers to implement the criteria outlined in the conservation activity 201 & 202 technical guidance
Monitoring Professionals: Please indicate the following related to any known monitoring professionals who have experience with: • Installing automatic samplers and associated equipment that meet the criteria in the 202 activity technical guidance.  • Calibrating automatic samplers and associated equipment according to the criteria in the 202 activity technical guidance. • Maintaining automatic samplers and associated equipment according to the criteria in the 202 activity technical guidance. • Collecting water quality samples that meet the criteria in the 201 activity technical guidance. • Analyzing water quality samples that meet the criteria in the 201 activity technical guidance.
Monitoring Professionals  (Number of each entity available): |  | Federal Agencies:
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 |  | Universities/Colleges:
 |  | Nongovernment Organizations:
 |  | Private Contractors:
Number of individuals that will be available for this monitoring effort: |  | Federal Agencies:
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Approximate travel distance of these individuals to the potential monitoring locations: |  | Federal Agencies:
 |  | State Agencies:
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Additional Information Related to This Request: