U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q40a. In your county, how did each of the following changes in the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (farm bill) strengthen or weaken monitoring of wetland conservation compliance?: Instituted good faith exemption allowing graduated reductions in program benefits for wetland conservation violations. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 0.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 4 |
Arkansas | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
California | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Colorado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Florida | 11.1 | 44.4 | 22.2 | 22.2 | 0.0 | 9 |
Georgia | 12.5 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 12.5 | 8 |
Iowa | 0.0 | 14.3 | 38.1 | 38.1 | 9.5 | 21 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Illinois | 3.2 | 6.5 | 61.3 | 25.8 | 3.2 | 31 |
Indiana | 0.0 | 17.6 | 35.3 | 29.4 | 17.6 | 17 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 6 |
Kentucky | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 21.4 | 64.3 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 14 |
Maryland | 33.3 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 21.4 | 42.9 | 21.4 | 14.3 | 14 |
Minnesota | 0.0 | 8.5 | 46.8 | 27.7 | 17.0 | 47 |
Missouri | 8.7 | 21.7 | 34.8 | 30.4 | 4.3 | 23 |
Mississippi | 20.0 | 0.0 | 80.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 |
Montana | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 |
North Carolina | 0.0 | 0.0 | 71.4 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 7 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 5.0 | 45.0 | 35.0 | 15.0 | 20 |
Nebraska | 0.0 | 13.9 | 47.2 | 38.9 | 0.0 | 36 |
New Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New York | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16.7 | 33.3 | 50.0 | 6 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 14.3 | 42.9 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 7 |
Oklahoma | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 2 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 3 |
Pennsylvania | 0.0 | 0.0 | 62.5 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 8 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
South Dakota | 0.0 | 16.0 | 32.0 | 32.0 | 20.0 | 25 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 14.3 | 42.9 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 7 |
Texas | 0.0 | 0.0 | 83.3 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 6 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Virginia | 0.0 | 40.0 | 40.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 5 |
Washington | 0.0 | 0.0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 3 |
Wisconsin | 0.0 | 7.1 | 64.3 | 25.0 | 3.6 | 28 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 0.0 | 28.6 | 71.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
All States | 1.8 | 13.5 | 48.0 | 28.1 | 8.7 | 392 |