Conservation Technical Assistance
Questions and Answers
Updated
02/28/2005
Q. What is the Conservation Technical Assistance
Program (CTA)?
A. The Conservation Technical Assistance Program (CTA) is a voluntary program
that provides technical assistance supported by science-based technology and
tools to help people conserve, maintain, and improve their natural resources.
Q. What is technical assistance?
A. Technical assistance is the help provided by NRCS and its partners to clients
to address opportunities, concerns, and problems related to the use of natural
resources.
Q. What does this assistance offer the landowner or manager?
A. This program offers opportunities to maintain and improve private land and
its management, implement land management technologies, protect and improve the
quality and quantity of water, maintain and improve wildlife and fish habitat,
enhance recreational opportunities, maintain and improve the aesthetic character
of private land, identify opportunities, encourage diversification; and
encourage the use of sustainable agricultural systems.
Q. Is financial assistance or cost-share available?
A. This program does not include financial or cost-share assistance. However,
through the CTA Program, clients may develop conservation plans, which may serve
as a basis for them to enter into financial assistance and easement conservation
programs provided by other Federal, State, and local programs.
Q. Who requests technical assistance?
A. All owners, managers, and others that have a stake and interest in natural
resource management are eligible to receive technical assistance from NRCS.
Q. How does one request technical assistance?
To receive technical assistance, the individual may contact NRCS or the local
conservation district.
For More Information
If you need more information about CTA, please contact your local USDA Service
Center, listed in the telephone book under U.S. Department of Agriculture, or
your local conservation district. Information also is available on the World
Wide Web at
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/.
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