230.40—Eligible practices for cost-share assistance.
(a)
The State priority plan must document and describe which of the following eleven categories will be made available to landowners for cost-share funding:
(1) Management Plan Development—
Development or revision of a management plan that must meet the minimum standards of a Forest Stewardship Plan (16 U.S.C. 2103a(f)(i) ). The plan applies to those portions of the landowner's property on which any practice or activity funded under FLEP shall be carried out, as well as any property of the owner that may be affected by the activity or practice. Management plans are not subject to any acreage limits, and therefore cost-sharing such a plan under FLEP is exempt from the 1,000-acre (or 5,000-acre) limit unless restricted as described in the State priority plan.
(2) Afforestation and Reforestation—
Site preparation, planting, seeding, or other practices to encourage natural regeneration or to ensure forest establishment and carbon sequestration.
(3) Forest Stand Improvement—
Practices to enhance growth and quality of wood fiber, special forest products, and carbon sequestration.
(4) Agroforestry Implementation—
Establishment, maintenance, and renovation of windbreaks, riparian forest buffers, silvopasture, alley cropping, or other agroforestry practices, including purposes for energy conservation and carbon sequestration in conjunction with agriculture, forest, and other land uses.
(5) Water Quality Improvement and Watershed Protection—
Establishment, maintenance, renovation, and restoration practices, including any necessary design and engineering to improve and protect water quality, riparian areas, and forest wetlands and watersheds.
(6) Fish and Wildlife Habitat Improvement—
Establishment, maintenance, and restoration practices to create, protect, or improve fish and wildlife habitat, including any necessary design and engineering.
(7) Forest Health and Protection—
Establishment of practices primarily to detect, monitor, assess, protect, improve, or restore forest health, including detection and control of insects, diseases, and animal damage to established stands.
(8) Invasive Species Control—
Establishment, maintenance and restoration practices primarily to detect, monitor, eradicate, or control the spread of invasive species.
(9) Wildfire and Catastrophic Risk Reduction—
Establishment of practices primarily to reduce the risk from wildfire and other catastrophic natural events.
(10) Wildfire and Catastrophic Event Rehabilitation—
Establishment of practices primarily to restore and rehabilitate forests following wildfire and other catastrophic natural events.
(11) Special Practices—
Establishment, maintenance, and restoration practices addressing other conservation concerns on nonindustrial private forest lands as proposed by the State Forester and the Committee, which must have concurrence by the responsible official.