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Conservation Security Program

Program Information

Popular name

(CSP)

Program Number

10.921

Program objective

The CSP provides financial and technical assistance to promote the conservation and improvement of soil, water, air, energy, plant and animal life, and other conservation purposes on Tribal and private working lands. Working lands include cropland, grassland, prairie land, improved pasture, and range land, as well as forested land that is an incidental part of an agriculture operation. The goal of CSP is to identify and reward those farmers and ranchers who are meeting the highest standards of conservation and environmental management on their operations and to support ongoing stewardship of private agricultural lands by providing payments for maintaining and enhancing natural resources.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

The program was announced through news media, local conservation districts, and in letters to agricultural landowners in the county. Regulations published in the Federal Register and 7 CFR XIV.

  1. Title XII, subtitle D, chapter 2, subchapter A of the Food Security Act of 1985, 16 U.S.C. 3838-3838c, as added by the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, Pub.L. 107-171, as amended by Section 2301 of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110-246. The Agricultural Act of 2014 did not make any changes to the authority for NRCS to continue to make payments on existing Security contracts entered into prior to FY 2009.

Program details

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Individual/Family
  • Land/Property Owner
  • Native American Organizations

Additional resources