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Natural Resource Base & Environment (Grants)

This USDA program protects and enhances natural resources through grants for research, education and extension activities in the management of forests and rangelands, and the management of soil, air and water. Funds are provided through competition, through formulas or to a specific program at a specific location.

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What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Since the long term performance measures are newly developed, there is no evidence of achieving targets. These measures were designed to show not only the development of technology, but its use.
  • The program met its two annual targets that deal with efficiency. They are the cost of reviewing a grant proposal and the time needed to review the proposal. The cost per proposal reviewed is estimated at $535, less that the target of $541. The time to review a proposal is estimated to be 216 days, the same as the target.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the focus of grant recipient reporting on outcomes.
  • Increasing planning and coordination with the Agricultural Research Service regarding the collection of stakeholder input.

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