CFR > Title 7 - Agriculture > SUBTITLE B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture > CHAPTER XIV—COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (parts 1400 to 1499) > SUBCHAPTER B—LOANS, PURCHASES, AND OTHER OPERATIONS (parts 1410 to 1499) > PART 1470—CONSERVATION STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM > SUBPART B—Contracts and Payments (§1470.20 to §1470.27) > 1470.22—Conservation stewardship plan.

1470.22—Conservation stewardship plan.

(a) NRCS will use the conservation planning process as outlined in the NPPH to encourage participants to address resource concerns in a comprehensive manner.
(b) The conservation stewardship plan will contain a record of the participant's decisions that describes the schedule of conservation activities to be implemented, managed, or improved under the conservation stewardship contract.
(c) Associated supporting information maintained with the participant's plan will include:
(1) CMT documentation that will be the basis for:
(i) Identifying and inventorying resource concerns,
(ii) Establishing benchmark data on the condition of existing conservation activities, and
(iii) Documenting the participant's conservation objectives to reach and exceed stewardship thresholds;
(2) A plan map delineating enrolled land with associated acreage amounts;
(3) In the case where a participant wishes to initiate or retain organic certification, documentation that will support the participant's transition to or participation in the National Organic Program;
(4) In the case where a participant is approved for the on-farm research and demonstration or pilot testing option, a research, demonstration, or pilot testing plan consistent with design protocols and application procedures established by NRCS; and
(5) Other information as determined appropriate by NRCS.