Help for Those in Katrina’s Path

Emergency Conservation Funding

USDA is providing more than $20 million in Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) funds to help producers repair damage to their lands. Participants will receive cost-share assistance of up to 75 percent of the cost to implement approved emergency conservation practices such as debris removal and restoration of fences and conservation structures. The ECP is administered at the county level under the guidance of USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) state offices.

The following states and counties will receive ECP funding:

Alabama - $855,000; Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Marengo, Mobile, Sumter and Washington

Louisiana - $12,452,000; Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermilion, Washington, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana, and Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Concordia, Evangeline and St. Landry

Mississippi - $7,102,000, All Counties

Tennessee - $25,000; Giles, Lawrence and Wayne

Gulf Region state FSA offices

Alabama: (334) 279-3500

Louisiana: (318) 473-7721

Arkansas: (501) 301-3000 Mississippi: (601) 965-4300

Florida: (352) 379-4562