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See Appendix 1. (b.) Be entirely located within an approved existing CRP State Conservation Priority Area within the CREP Project Area, (see Appendix 2, which displays the Idaho Conservation Priority Areas), or have an Erodibility Index (EI) of 8 or greater as determined by CCC, or, for practice CP22 acreage, meet continuous sign-up eligibility criteria as determined according to FSA CRP National Directives. 11. The cropland must have been both: (a) irrigated by groundwater or surface water sources other than the main stem of the Snal(e River, at the rate of not less than 1;2 acre-foot per acre for 4 out of the 6 years, 1996-2001, and (b) irrigated within 24 months prior to the submission of a CREP offer for enrollment or otherwise included within an approved Idaho Department of Water Resources' (IDWR) mitigation plan within 24 months prior to the submission of a CREP offer for enrollment. (A "CREP offer" for this purpose of timing will be considered to be a signed CRP-l and CRP-2C form submitted by a producer to the FSA County Office or if approved by CCC, the signing by the producer of a registry at the county office for persons seel(ing entry into the program.) 111. The cropland must be physically and legally capable of being irrigated in a normal manner when offered for enrollment. IV. Idle acres must be verifiable from imagery or other verifiable methods. H. A water use contract agreement between Idaho and the producer, which is acceptable to CCC, titled, "Agreement Not to Divert Water from the Eastern Snal(e Plain Aquifer" (a.l(.a., Agreement Not to Divert), will be entered into between producers and Idaho for all irrigated cropland to be enrolled under a CRP contract and executed under this Agreement before the CRP contracts will be approved. The agreed to actual savings of water must equal or exceed the amount of water normally used on the irrigated land except as necessary to establish the cover. If an Agreement Not to Divert is not executed within six months of a producer's submission of signed CRP-l and CRP-2 forms (CREP Offer) or the producer cannot or refuses to execute the Agreement Not to Divert, CCC will reject the CREP Offer. I. Participants (a producer that has had their CRP contract approved by CCC is l(nown as a "participant") may apply not more than 1/3 acre-foot of irrigation water to enrolled land during the first 12 months of a CRP contract, unless otherwise authorized by the CCC, but only if/when CREP AGREEMENT - 4 Rev. 05-08-2006