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<strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">USDA Seeks Partner Proposals to Protect and Restore Critical Wetlands in Puerto Rico & the USVI</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">USDA en Busca de Propuestas con Socios para Proteger y Restaurar Humedales Críticos en Puerto Rico e Islas Vírgenes Americanas</span></b></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">San Juan, PR, June 22, 2015</span></b></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);"> – Caribbean Area Natural Resources Conservation
Service Director, Edwin Almodóvar, today announced funding availability for financial and technical assistance to help eligible conservation partners voluntarily protect, restore and enhance critical wetlands on private and tribal agricultural lands.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">“<em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">USDA has leveraged partnerships to accomplish a great deal on America’s wetlands over the past two decades</span></em>,"
Almodóvar said. “<em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year’s funding will help strengthen these partnerships and achieve greater wetland acreage in the Caribbean Area and throughout the nation</span></em>.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">Funding will be provided through the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP), a special enrollment option under the
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<span style="color:rgb(29,87,130);">Agricultural Conservation Easement Program’s</span></a> Wetland Reserve Easement component. It is administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Under WREP, states, local units of governments, non-governmental
organizations and American Indian tribes collaborate with USDA through cooperative and partnership agreements. These partners work with willing tribal and private landowners who voluntarily enroll eligible land into easements to protect, restore and enhance
wetlands on their properties. WREP was created through the 2014 Farm Bill and was formerly known as the Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">Wetland reserve easements allow landowners to successfully enhance and protect habitat for wildlife on their lands, reduce impacts from flooding, recharge groundwater and provide
outdoor recreational and educational opportunities. The voluntary nature of NRCS' easement programs allows effective integration of wetland restoration on working landscapes, providing benefits to farmers and ranchers who enroll in the program, as well as
surrounding local and rural communities.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">Proposals must be submitted to NRCS state offices by July 31, 2015</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">. Projects
can range from individual to watershed-wide to ecosystem-wide. Under a similar program in the 2008 Farm Bill, NRCS and its partners entered into 272 easements that enrolled more than 44,020 acres of wetlands from 2009 through 2013. The new collaborative WREP
will build on those successes by providing the financial and technical assistance necessary for states, non-governmental organizations and tribes to leverage resources to restore and protect wetlands and wildlife habitat.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">Through WREP, NRCS will sign multi-year agreements with partners to leverage resources, including funding, to achieve maximum wetland restoration, protection and enhancement and
to create optimum wildlife habitat on enrolled acres. WREP partners are required to contribute a funding match for financial or technical assistance. These partners work directly with eligible landowners interested in enrolling their agricultural land into
conservation wetland easements.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(50,50,50);">Today’s announcement builds on the roughly<a rel="nofollow" href="https://us-mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch?.rand=8gf4n9s92bqf5#14e2b93a90e2467f_gd_top"><span style="color:rgb(29,87,130);"> $332 million USDA has announced this year</span></a> to protect and restore agricultural
working lands, grasslands and wetlands. Collectively, NRCS’s easement programs help productive farm, ranch and tribal lands remain in agriculture and protect the nation's critical wetlands and grasslands, home to diverse wildlife and plant species. Under
the former Wetlands Reserve Program, private landowners, tribes and entities such as land trusts and conservation organizations enrolled 2.7 million acres through 14,500 agreements for a total NRCS and partner investment of $4.3 billion in financial and technical
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