U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q23b. 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 variance for compliance violations that are considered technical and minor in nature. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 2.4 | 22.0 | 53.7 | 19.5 | 2.4 | 41 |
Arkansas | 5.6 | 22.2 | 61.1 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 18 |
California | 0.0 | 14.3 | 71.4 | 14.3 | 0.0 | 14 |
Colorado | 0.0 | 39.4 | 45.5 | 15.2 | 0.0 | 33 |
Florida | 0.0 | 38.5 | 53.8 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 13 |
Georgia | 2.0 | 29.4 | 58.8 | 9.8 | 0.0 | 51 |
Iowa | 2.6 | 26.3 | 47.4 | 19.7 | 3.9 | 76 |
Idaho | 5.3 | 36.8 | 47.4 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 19 |
Illinois | 1.4 | 30.0 | 52.9 | 14.3 | 1.4 | 70 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 13.5 | 53.8 | 25.0 | 7.7 | 52 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 19.3 | 60.2 | 14.5 | 6.0 | 83 |
Kentucky | 4.5 | 29.9 | 58.2 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 67 |
Louisiana | 4.3 | 13.0 | 78.3 | 4.3 | 0.0 | 23 |
Maryland | 18.2 | 9.1 | 63.6 | 9.1 | 0.0 | 11 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 9.1 | 81.8 | 6.1 | 3.0 | 33 |
Minnesota | 1.7 | 15.0 | 65.0 | 13.3 | 5.0 | 60 |
Missouri | 4.2 | 22.5 | 62.0 | 11.3 | 0.0 | 71 |
Mississippi | 1.7 | 22.0 | 71.2 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 59 |
Montana | 0.0 | 34.3 | 54.3 | 11.4 | 0.0 | 35 |
North Carolina | 3.8 | 19.2 | 59.6 | 13.5 | 3.8 | 52 |
North Dakota | 6.8 | 13.6 | 56.8 | 22.7 | 0.0 | 44 |
Nebraska | 1.5 | 26.9 | 47.8 | 19.4 | 4.5 | 67 |
New Mexico | 0.0 | 23.5 | 64.7 | 11.8 | 0.0 | 17 |
New York | 0.0 | 25.7 | 62.9 | 8.6 | 2.9 | 35 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 23.4 | 61.7 | 14.9 | 0.0 | 47 |
Oklahoma | 2.0 | 30.0 | 46.0 | 16.0 | 6.0 | 50 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 37.5 | 43.8 | 18.8 | 0.0 | 16 |
Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 36.4 | 60.6 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 33 |
South Carolina | 5.3 | 15.8 | 73.7 | 5.3 | 0.0 | 19 |
South Dakota | 0.0 | 20.8 | 47.9 | 25.0 | 6.3 | 48 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 22.2 | 62.2 | 13.3 | 2.2 | 45 |
Texas | 0.9 | 26.7 | 56.0 | 12.9 | 3.4 | 116 |
Utah | 0.0 | 12.5 | 75.0 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 8 |
Virginia | 3.0 | 30.3 | 51.5 | 15.2 | 0.0 | 33 |
Washington | 0.0 | 25.0 | 60.0 | 10.0 | 5.0 | 20 |
Wisconsin | 0.0 | 14.9 | 63.8 | 21.3 | 0.0 | 47 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 16.7 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 2.0 | 20.0 | 68.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 50 |
All States | 1.8 | 23.7 | 58.6 | 13.6 | 2.3 | 1,594 |