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Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Application
Montgomery County, MD
Population: 757,027
Program Year: 2003
Abstract:
The Montgomery County (MC), Maryland Department of Technology Services - Geographic Information Systems (DTS-GIS) Team, in cooperation with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), developed an Arc View GIS based Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) application. The application provides the Montgomery County Soil Conservation District (SCD) the means to save a significant amount of time and makes the task of targeting eligible farms for CREP funding and marketing the CREP program to the farmland owners more efficient. The CREP application provides the ability to select the target farm by address or geographic location. In doing so, the application will start to process and analyze factors based on the biographical data associated with the target property, such as steams, wetlands, and soil rental rates. SCD staff need only click a button and then choose a property to obtain the attributes of the target property to realize if this property is a candidate for the CREP program. The MC geographic data presented in the CREP application reflects information downloaded daily, weekly, or quarterly by DTS-GIS.
Contact:
Michael Knuppel
Chief Technology Officer
Department of Technology Services
Executive Office Building
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (240) 777-8006
Fax: (240) 777-2831
For more information regarding individual programs, please contact the county contact person listed. For more information about NACo's Achievement Award program,
please contact Kathryn Murphy
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