§ 700.23 - Water quality plan.

(a) The participant's water quality plan, developed with technical assistance and certification by the SCS or its designee and approved by the CD, is to include appropriate approved BMPs. Such BMPs must reduce the amount of pollutants that enter a stream, aquifer, or lake by:

(1) Methods such as reducing the application rates or changing the application methods or potential pollutants.

(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) Participants’ water quality plans shall include BMPs for the treatment of all critical areas or sources on the farm on that land within the project area regardless of eligibility for cost-sharing with RCWP funds. Management type BMPs which are not cost-shared but for which technical advice will be given project participants shall be listed in the plan. A water quality plan is not required for that portion of a farm that does not include a critical area or source.

(c) The participant is responsible for compliance with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws including those relating to the environment, in installing BMPs to solve the nonpoint source water quality problems.

(d) Time schedules for implementing BMPs are to be provided in the participant's water quality plan.

(e) The SCS or its designee shall make an annual status review to assure the technical adequacy of the implementation of the water quality plan.