Compendium Data Form

Goal #2	Clean and Safe Water
Objective #2	Protect Water Quality: Protect the quality of rivers, lakes, and streams on a watershed basis and protect coastal and ocean waters.

Name:
National Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program Implementation (1)

Purpose:
EPA's work with these other agencies includes information dissemination, technical assistance, information technology, etc. (2)

Agency :
Department of Agriculture

Program:
Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation Compliance (4)

Purpose:
The Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service helps to remove certain incentives for persons to produce agricultural commodities on highly erodible land or converted wetland (5).

Authorizing Legislation:
Clean Water Act, Section 319 (6)

Footnotes:
(1) Source: Page II-50 of EPA’s FY2005 Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification - Clean and Safe
Water.

(2) Source: Page II-56 of EPA’s FY2005 Annual Performance Plan and Congressional Justification - Clean and Safe
Water. EPA’s Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds, Nonpoint Source Control Branch.

(3) Source: Natural Resources Consevation Service - http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/

(4) Source: The General Accounting Office's (GAO) report entitled Federal Role in Addressing---and Contributing
to---Nonpoint Source Pollution, (Report No. GAO/RCED -99-45 dated February 1999. GAO reported that
35 programs across many federal agencies address nonpoint source pollution, and in some cases,
devote a significant amount of resources to the problem, page 83. In our Compendium, we identified only
30 programs as 3 were later consolidated into the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
The entire report can be accessed at GAO's website http://www.gao.gov.

(5) Source: The General Accounting Office's (GAO) report entitled Federal Role in Addressing---and Contributing
to---Nonpoint Source Pollution, (Report No. GAO/RCED -99-45 dated February 1999. GAO reported that
35 programs across many federal agencies address nonpoint source pollution, and in some cases,
devote a significant amount of resources to the problem, page 83. In our Compendium, we identified only
30 programs as 3 were later consolidated into the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
The entire report can be accessed at GAO's website http://www.gao.gov.

(6) Source: EPA website http://www.epa.gov/epahome/laws.htm

Name:	National Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program Implementation (1)
Purpose:	EPA's work with these other agencies includes information dissemination, technical assistance, information technology, etc. (2)

Agency :	Department of Agriculture
Program:	Highly Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation Compliance (4)
Purpose:	The Department of Agriculture - Natural Resources Conservation Service helps to remove certain incentives for persons to produce agricultural commodities on highly erodible land or converted wetland (5).