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The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States. The Landowner has up to three choices:
The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) was a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the program with funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation .
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a 2-million-acre (8,100 km 2) national program (with an enrollment limit of 100,000 acres (400 km 2) per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from 5 acres (20,000 m 2) to 10 acres (40,000 m 2). [2]
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Ryan Jones, the area engineer with the SWCD, said the area of restored wetland was previously filled with sedimentation, and water flowed over it and also caused water to flow in other directions ...
Terry McNeil, an insurance expert and president and CEO of T.D. McNeil Insurance Services, said State Farm will likely try to do right by its customers but it is already strained in the state.
Where a wetland is described as "manipulated", this might mean that it has been drained, dredged, filled, levelled, or altered in some other way to allow agriculture or development to take place on the site. [8] If manipulation of wetlands results in unavoidable adverse impacts, compensatory mitigation measures are used to offset these impacts.
A N.C. Department of Environmental Quality analysis said as many as 2.5 million acres of wetlands could be at risk under the new law.