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MD.450.8.3, TCH - Review of Draft Conservation Practice Standards

Maryland Bulletin: 450-8-3
Subject: TCH - Review of Draft Conservation Practice Standards
Date: June 24, 2008

Action Required By: July 28, 2008

Purpose. To request comments on four draft conservation practice standards.

Expiration Date. September 30, 2008.

Explanation. 

We periodically review and revise our Maryland conservation practice standards to maintain consistency with updated national standards. The following drafts are updates of previously issued Maryland standards:

  • Agrichemical Handling Facility (Code 309) – This is a revision of the old Interim Maryland Conservation Practice Standard, Agrichemical Mixing Facility (Code 702). There have been many minor changes throughout the document in order to align more with the National Standard.
  • Field Border (Code 386) – Additional criteria have been added for erosion control, water quality, managing pest populations, carbon storage, and air quality.
  • Heavy Use Area Protection (Code 561) - This is the second draft of this standard. Due to comments received for the first draft, this standard has had substantial changes throughout.

The following draft is a new standard for Maryland:

  • Early Successional Habitat Development/Management (Code 647) - This is a practice that can be used to specify prescribed burning, disking, overseeding, herbicide treatment, and non-commercial tree thinning, when these activities are conducted for wildlife habitat management purposes.

An electronic copy of each standard will be available for downloading from the eFOTG through my.NRCS or http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/efotg/. Select Maryland and select a county. The draft standards will be displayed in the main window under “What’s Recently Changed” and “Draft eFOTG.”

Contact. If you are unable to access the Internet, you may request a paper copy of the documents from Anne Lynn at 443-482-2908.

Please return your comments on the draft standards by July 28, 2008 to the following individuals:

Technical Specialist Telephone Number Conservation Practice Standards
Anne Lynn
State Resource Conservationist
Annapolis State Office		 443-482-2908 647
Steve Strano
State Biologist
Annapolis State Office		 443-482-2928 386
Carol Grimaldi
Civil Engineer
Wicomico Field Office		 443-235-7428 386
Warren Johnson
Civil Engineer
Frederick Field Office		 240-405-5670 309

You may respond by e-mail or by regular mail. To the extent possible, we ask that you consolidate all comments from your office. If you have any questions, please contact the appropriate technical specialist, as noted above.

/s/

ANNE M. LYNN
State Resource Conservationist

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