Agricultural Land

Agricultural land includes:

1. prime
2. unique
3. other than prime or unique that is of statewide importance
4. other than prime or unique that is of local importance

When a proposed project impacts agricultural land, the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) should:

• summarize the results of early consultation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service and, as appropriate, State and local agriculture agencies where any of any of these four types of agricultural land could be directly or indirectly impacted by any alternative under consideration.
• contain a map showing the location of all farmlands in the project impact area
• discuss the impacts of the various alternatives
• identify measures to avoid or reduce the impacts