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National Planning Procedures Handbook
Subpart B, Part 600.51
Draft Comprehensive Nutrient Management Planning Technical Guidance
600.51 Definition of a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP)
A CNMP is a conservation plan that is unique to animal feeding
operations. It is a grouping of conservation practices and management activities
which, when implemented as part of a conservation system, will help to ensure that both production
and natural resource protection goals are achieved. A CNMP incorporates practices to utilize
animal manure and organic by-products as a beneficial resource. A CNMP addresses natural
resource concerns dealing with soil erosion, manure, and organic by-products and
their potential impacts on water quality, which may derive from an AFO. A CNMP
is developed to assist an AFO owner/operator in meeting all applicable local,
tribal, State, and Federal water quality goals or regulations. For nutrient impaired stream segments or water bodies, additional management
activities or conservation practices may be required to meet local, tribal, State, or
Federal water quality goals or regulations.
CNMP must meet NRCS technical standards. For those elements
included by Owner and/or operator in a CNMP for which NRCS currently does
not maintain technical standards (i.e., feed management, vector control, air
quality, etc.), producers should meet criteria established by Land Grant
Universities, industry, or other technically qualified entities. Within each
state, the NRCS State Conservationist has the authority to approve non-NRCS
criteria established for use in the planning and implementation of CNMP
elements.
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