Attachment 1
Conservation Security Program
Existing Practice List and Payments
• Payment for maintaining existing practices to treat resource concerns
• Payments based on 2001 county level average practice costs
o COST / LIFE OF THE PRACTICE
• Kansas proposed list:
Kansas - Existing Practice
Payments
Practice
Code Units
Maintenance Average Annual
Cost / Unit
Contour Buffer Strips
332 ac
$5.00
Critical Area Planting (limited to
ephemeral and classic gullies)
342 ac
$10.00
Grade Stabilization Structure
410 no
$400.00
Grassed Waterways
412 ac
$90.00
Pipeline
516
ft
$00.06
Riparian Forest Buffer
391 ac
$107.00
Terrace
600
ft
$00.08
Watering Facility
614 no
$150.00
Water Well
642 no
$100.00
Filter Strips
393 ac
$5.00
Spring Development
574 no
$220.00
Fencing (limited to cross fencing,
use exclusion)
382
ft
$00.05