April 21, 2008
Purpose: To provide the field offices instructions for
completing 2008 status reviews.
Expiration
Date: December 31, 2008
Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) policy requires that tracts for 5% of all FSA Farm
Credit Loan recipients be added to the annual HELC/wetland compliance review
list (NFSAM 518.02). NRCS national
headquarters was to provide the random selection list to the states for the
2008 Compliance Review process. This
list was compiled by FSA Farm Loan Division and is attached.
If
counties have already added loan recipients to the 2008 compliance review list,
an equal number of names from the county loan recipient list provided by
national headquarters can be deleted. In
other words, if you have already received a list of loan recipient tracts to be
reviewed from FSA, determine how many loan recipients you have added and
subtract that number from the list provided by headquarters. For example, if you have added six loan
recipients to the database and the list from headquarters has eight names for
your county, only add two from headquarters’ list. If the reverse is true and you have added more
than is on the list, do not add or delete any tracts.
Names
should not be automatically added to the list of tracts to be reviewed. The FSA list does not indicate if the tracts
for the loan recipient have HEL and/or wetlands. Before entering any names into the compliance
review process:
1.
Check the names on the loan recipient list with
names on the 2008 national sample compliance review list previously
provided. If the loan recipient is
listed in the random tract selection, a second review is unnecessary. A replacement is not required.
2.
Check the names on the loan recipient list with
the names on the 2007 national sample compliance review list. If a review was conducted in 2007 for the
loan recipient tract, a review in 2008 is unnecessary. A replacement is not required.
3.
For loan recipient tracts that are not reviewed
in 2007 or 2008 as part of the compliance review process, identify if the loan
recipient’s tracts have HEL or wetlands.
If there is no HEL or wetlands on the tracts, this name can be deleted
from the list. A replacement is not
required.
Tracts
for farm credit loan recipients that are not addressed in items 1 – 3 above
should be added to the compliance review process.
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Questions
concerning the status review web-based application can be directed to
/s/
JANE
E. HARDISTY
State
Conservationist
cc: Gail
Peas, Program Specialist, FSA,
Attachment