U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q23a. In your county, how did the following changes in the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (farm bill) strengthen or weaken monitoring of HELC compliance?: Instituted good faith exemption allowing graduated reductions in program benefits for HELC violations. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 0.0 | 12.2 | 61.0 | 19.5 | 7.3 | 41 |
Arkansas | 0.0 | 22.2 | 55.6 | 22.2 | 0.0 | 18 |
California | 0.0 | 7.7 | 84.6 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 13 |
Colorado | 0.0 | 12.1 | 60.6 | 24.2 | 3.0 | 33 |
Florida | 7.7 | 30.8 | 53.8 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 13 |
Georgia | 4.3 | 12.8 | 63.8 | 17.0 | 2.1 | 47 |
Iowa | 2.6 | 12.8 | 37.2 | 32.1 | 15.4 | 78 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 15.0 | 55.0 | 25.0 | 5.0 | 20 |
Illinois | 1.5 | 11.8 | 44.1 | 30.9 | 11.8 | 68 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 5.7 | 49.1 | 30.2 | 15.1 | 53 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 6.1 | 63.4 | 20.7 | 9.8 | 82 |
Kentucky | 0.0 | 17.7 | 72.6 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 62 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 18.2 | 68.2 | 9.1 | 4.5 | 22 |
Maryland | 0.0 | 18.2 | 45.5 | 27.3 | 9.1 | 11 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 8.8 | 76.5 | 11.8 | 2.9 | 34 |
Minnesota | 1.7 | 6.8 | 64.4 | 22.0 | 5.1 | 59 |
Missouri | 1.5 | 13.2 | 70.6 | 10.3 | 4.4 | 68 |
Mississippi | 1.8 | 17.5 | 70.2 | 8.8 | 1.8 | 57 |
Montana | 0.0 | 16.2 | 62.2 | 16.2 | 5.4 | 37 |
North Carolina | 4.0 | 10.0 | 64.0 | 20.0 | 2.0 | 50 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 4.7 | 51.2 | 32.6 | 11.6 | 43 |
Nebraska | 0.0 | 10.9 | 50.0 | 28.1 | 10.9 | 64 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 6.3 | 75.0 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 16 |
New York | 0.0 | 12.1 | 72.7 | 12.1 | 3.0 | 33 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 9.5 | 64.3 | 19.0 | 7.1 | 42 |
Oklahoma | 0.0 | 10.6 | 61.7 | 19.1 | 8.5 | 47 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 17.6 | 52.9 | 17.6 | 11.8 | 17 |
Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 3.2 | 77.4 | 12.9 | 6.5 | 31 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 41.2 | 58.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
South Dakota | 0.0 | 10.9 | 45.7 | 32.6 | 10.9 | 46 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 9.5 | 64.3 | 21.4 | 4.8 | 42 |
Texas | 0.0 | 14.2 | 62.3 | 14.2 | 9.4 | 106 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
Virginia | 3.3 | 13.3 | 60.0 | 23.3 | 0.0 | 30 |
Washington | 0.0 | 5.6 | 55.6 | 27.8 | 11.1 | 18 |
Wisconsin | 0.0 | 4.5 | 68.2 | 22.7 | 4.5 | 44 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 93.8 | 6.3 | 0.0 | 16 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 2.3 | 18.2 | 75.0 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 44 |
All States | 0.8 | 11.8 | 61.4 | 19.3 | 6.6 | 1,530 |