| U.S. General Accounting Office |
| Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
| Q24g. In your county, how did each of the following changes in the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (farm bill) strengthen or weaken monitoring of HELC compliance?: Revised good faith exemption by removing the 1-in-5 year rule and allowed for compliance grace period. |
| Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
| Alabama | 0.0 | 19.0 | 52.4 | 21.4 | 7.1 | 42 |
| Arkansas | 5.0 | 30.0 | 45.0 | 15.0 | 5.0 | 20 |
| California | 0.0 | 28.6 | 64.3 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 14 |
| Colorado | 0.0 | 30.0 | 53.3 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 30 |
| Florida | 0.0 | 40.0 | 40.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
| Georgia | 0.0 | 25.0 | 60.4 | 12.5 | 2.1 | 48 |
| Iowa | 0.0 | 10.8 | 46.2 | 30.8 | 12.3 | 65 |
| Idaho | 0.0 | 20.0 | 53.3 | 20.0 | 6.7 | 15 |
| Illinois | 1.6 | 11.1 | 57.1 | 20.6 | 9.5 | 63 |
| Indiana | 0.0 | 8.3 | 47.9 | 31.3 | 12.5 | 48 |
| Kansas | 0.0 | 14.5 | 59.2 | 22.4 | 3.9 | 76 |
| Kentucky | 1.8 | 19.3 | 73.7 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 57 |
| Louisiana | 0.0 | 18.2 | 63.6 | 18.2 | 0.0 | 22 |
| Maryland | 8.3 | 8.3 | 58.3 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 12 |
| Michigan | 0.0 | 8.8 | 73.5 | 11.8 | 5.9 | 34 |
| Minnesota | 0.0 | 5.0 | 66.7 | 21.7 | 6.7 | 60 |
| Missouri | 1.4 | 14.3 | 64.3 | 18.6 | 1.4 | 70 |
| Mississippi | 3.5 | 15.8 | 59.6 | 19.3 | 1.8 | 57 |
| Montana | 0.0 | 19.4 | 66.7 | 13.9 | 0.0 | 36 |
| North Carolina | 6.0 | 18.0 | 52.0 | 22.0 | 2.0 | 50 |
| North Dakota | 0.0 | 15.9 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 9.1 | 44 |
| Nebraska | 0.0 | 4.8 | 51.6 | 32.3 | 11.3 | 62 |
| New Mexico | 0.0 | 27.8 | 50.0 | 16.7 | 5.6 | 18 |
| New York | 0.0 | 25.8 | 58.1 | 9.7 | 6.5 | 31 |
| Ohio | 0.0 | 13.2 | 57.9 | 26.3 | 2.6 | 38 |
| Oklahoma | 0.0 | 24.5 | 53.1 | 16.3 | 6.1 | 49 |
| Oregon | 0.0 | 18.2 | 45.5 | 27.3 | 9.1 | 11 |
| Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 22.6 | 61.3 | 12.9 | 3.2 | 31 |
| South Carolina | 0.0 | 40.0 | 55.0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
| South Dakota | 0.0 | 12.8 | 46.8 | 36.2 | 4.3 | 47 |
| Tennessee | 2.3 | 18.6 | 58.1 | 14.0 | 7.0 | 43 |
| Texas | 0.0 | 12.1 | 60.6 | 22.2 | 5.1 | 99 |
| Utah | 0.0 | 25.0 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
| Virginia | 4.2 | 16.7 | 70.8 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 24 |
| Washington | 0.0 | 5.9 | 70.6 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 17 |
| Wisconsin | 0.0 | 7.5 | 57.5 | 25.0 | 10.0 | 40 |
| West Virginia | 0.0 | 23.5 | 64.7 | 11.8 | 0.0 | 17 |
| States with fewer than 15 respondents | 4.3 | 21.3 | 66.0 | 8.5 | 0.0 | 47 |
| All States | 0.9 | 16.2 | 58.2 | 19.5 | 5.1 | 1,475 |