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agreement upon completion of the project and Farm Dump Removal before any grant funds are awarded. How to apply: Been down in Assistance Program Complete this application. Applications are also Funding for this program is supplied by a grant from the Kentucky Division of Conservation through the available on the district web site. Complete the To participate in this program, the farm must be application and return it to your county conservation the dumps? located in Boone County, Kentucky. A farm is Kentucky Soil Erosion and Water Quality Cost Share Program. district office. If possible, include a photograph of defined as 10 or acres in agricultural or the dump site with your application. Please contact forestry production. This program is offered to help It is illegal to dispose of your own or other people’s our district staff if you have any questions or need farmers clean up farm dumps in order to comply any help with your application. with the Kentucky Agriculture Water Quality Act. garbage on your own property. Burning dumps is also illegal. Both practices pollute the environment

A farm dump is defined by the Kentucky and can cause illness and injury. The only safe and legal way to dispose of garbage is by hauling it to a Department for Environmental Protection as “any For information and technical assistance, area on a farm used to dispose of household permitted waste site. A person engaged in agricultural or forestry production has failed or contact: garbage, junk furniture, appliances, farm chemicals and anything else that is no longer useable.” refused to comply with agriculture water quality planning and has been deemed a "bad actor" under Boone County Conservation District 6028 Camp Ernst Road By applying for help under this program, you are KRS 224.71-130 shall lose eligibility for further cost share assistance. Therefore, this grant program is Burlington, KY 41005 showing a good faith effort to clean up the dump. PHONE: 859-586-7903 To process your application, a representative of the not available to landowners who are currently under any of enforcement action. E-mail: [email protected] conservation district will visit your farm. Your application will not be shared with any other agency Applications will be evaluated as they are received. www.boonecountyky.org/bccd or organization. The program will be available until all grant funds

are expended. If the program is oversubscribed If funded, participants are responsible for 25% of If you have an old dump on the cost of cleaning up the dump. Reimbursement with eligible applications, applications will be Boone County Conservation District, Kentucky will be made after the work is completed. prioritized for funding according to the following your farm, let us help you Reimbursement is limited to 75% of the total cost of factors: proximity to a water body, if you have an Agriculture Water Quality Plan; and if the property it clean and green! for clean up and restoration of the site up to a maximum of $1,875. is enrolled in the Kentucky Agricultural District Program.

You will be asked to furnish receipts and/or documentation for any cleanup and restoration Projects must be completed by June 1, 2015. Farm Dump Removal work on the site, and for fees for proper disposal or Assistance Program recycling of materials from the dump. All programs and services of the Boone County Conservation District are offered on a nondiscriminatory

basis, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, Site restoration must be completed according to sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, political Natural Resource Conservation Service technical beliefs and marital or familial status. Boone County specifications for seeding and mulching. Program V_2014-2015_1 participants must also sign a maintenance Conservation District Boone County Conservation District 4. To receive help under this program, you will 7. The dump is located: (in an open field, on a 14. Will you sign an agreement to maintain the area for 10 be expected to provide least 25% of the Farm Dump Clean Up Assistance Program hillside, etc. years? YES NO Application cost of cleaning up the farm dump. To help in cleaning up this dump, would you be able ______to provide the following? (Check all that Name______15. Are there any other issues you believe are important? apply.) ______Cash payment for labor, equipment or Please explain: ______8. To the best of your knowledge: trash disposal fees ______Mailing Address______Your own labor or the labor of family How many years has the dump has been on the ______farm? ______and friends ______Property Address ______Farm or other equipment to help When was the last things were placed in ______the dump? ______16. How much do you think it might cost to remove trash clean up this dump? City______Seed and equipment to replant the What types of things have been placed in this ______State______Zip Code______area after the trash has been removed farm dump? ______Phone (Home)______Other (list)______(Cell)______17. Are there special circumstances that affect (Daytime phone – if different than home) 5. Do you currently have garbage collection ______your ability to clean up the dump or provide service? YES NO 25 % of the cost to have this farm dump ______cleaned up? YES NO If YES, with what company? E-mail:______If yes, please explain: 10. Do you think there may be hazardous waste in the ______dump (chemicals, paint, pesticides, herbicides, etc.)? ______1. Do you own the farm where the dump is If NO, how do you dispose of your garbage? YES NO ______located? (circle one) YES NO ______If not, please explain:______11. Are there tires in the dump? YES NO ______If yes, how many? ______I understand that in order for my application to be 6. Is the dump close to a ditch, stream, river, ______considered, a representative of the county conservation pond, lake or other water? YES NO district will visit my farm. To the best of my knowledge, the

12. What is the approximate size of the dump (length, width, information in this application is correct. If YES, is this water used for drinking water 2. Do you have an Agriculture Water Quality for people or livestock? YES NO depth): ______Plan for the farm? YES NO ______If YES, how close is the dump to the water ( Signature)

3. Is the farm enrolled in the Kentucky ______13. Will you restore the site according to Natural Resource (Date)

Agricultural District Program? Conservation Service technical specifications for ______NOTE: If possible, include a photograph of the dump YES NO seeding and mulching? YES NO site.