The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has completed its review of USDA's final rule to rule to make changes to the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) to put changes in place from the 2018 Farm Bill.
The changes include confirming validity of CSP contracts entered into prior to 2018 Farm Bill enactment, it authorizes the ability to extend contracts that were due to expire on or before December 31, 2019, and authorizes renewal of such contracts through the new CSP authority and simplifies CSP ranking criteria and addresses other issues raised in 110 comments that were submitted on the interim rule on CSP.