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<br />REcUtlENDATlOOS <br /> <br />Workload Analysis <br /> <br />Preparation of the conservation plans included in the sample area required <br />one staff year of a soil conservationist's time. This was about one-tenth of the <br />total planning needed. Based on this sample, nine additional staff years of <br />planning assistance will be needed to canplete plans for all of the project area. <br />Because landowners are not ready to make the necessary decisions about how they <br />will develop their fann until just before irrigation water becomes available, the <br />planning will have to be done over a four to six year period. <br /> <br />About ten years of technical assistance will be needed to implanent the <br />plans prepared. A conservation technician can do IIX>st of this work. Sane review <br />and supervision fran a professional engineer will be needed. The current <br />construction schedule of the Bureau of Reclamation indicates that it will take <br />them about five years to canplete the lateral installations in all of the blocks. <br />The onfann installation \-KJrk is anticipated to lag the lateral installation by <br />about one to two years. <br /> <br />Cost Share Assistance <br /> <br />Under present policies, no cost share assistance is available fran either <br />the State or Federal goverrnnents for installation of the onfann irrigation <br />systems. Underground pipeline and appurtances are eligible for cost share <br />assistance under the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service's ACP <br />program only in areas mere the land has been irrigated for at least three years <br />out of the last five years. <br /> <br />The low expected net returns to the landowner will require excellent <br />management for the farmer to stay in business. Without cost sharing assistance <br />the temptation to install a cut rate or substandard system will be high. <br /> <br />-14- <br />