[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 6]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR634.23]

[Page 445-446]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
   CHAPTER VI--NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF 
                               AGRICULTURE
 
PART 634_RURAL CLEAN WATER PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C_Participant RCWP Contracts
 
Sec. 634.23  Water quality plan.

    (a) The participant's water quality plan, developed with technical 
assistance by the NRCS or its designee, is to include appropriate BMP's 
identified in the approved agricultural portion of the 208 water quality 
management plan. Such BMP's must reduce the amount of pollutants that 
enter a stream or lake by:
    (1) Methods, such as reducing the application rates or changing the 
application methods of potential pollutants, and
    (2) Methods, such as practices or combinations of practices which 
prevent potential pollutants from leaving source areas or reduce the 
amount of potential pollutants that reach a stream or lake after leaving 
a source area.
    (b) Participant's water quality plans shall as a minimum include 
BMP's for all critical areas or sources. The plans will include BMP's 
which are required but not cost-shared. Non-cost-shared BMP's, essential 
for the performance and maintenance of cost-shared BMP's shall be 
required as a condition of the RCWP contract.
    (c) The participant is responsible for compliance with all other 
applicable Federal, State, and local laws that deal with the 
participant's nonpoint source water quality problems, such as the 
treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. BMP's required for 
compliance may be cost shared.
    (d) It is recognized that the participants' water-quality plans upon 
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the RCWP contracts are to be based may include conservation measures 
other than those related to water quality improvement. These measures 
are not eligible for cost sharing under this program. The installation 
of such conservation measures will not be required as a condition of the 
RCWP contract and will not be shown in the time schedules for 
implementing BMP's.
    (e) Time schedules for implementing BMP's are to be provided in the 
participant's water quality plan. The time schedule is to establish the 
length of the contract within the 5 to 10 year period established by 
law.
    (f) The Natural Resources Conservation Service will certify as to 
the technical adequacy of the water-quality plan.
    (g) The soil conservation districts are to review and approve all 
water-quality plans and modifications.