U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q40e. 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 new trigger mechanism for swampbuster violations. |
Significantly strengthened (percent) | Strengthened (percent) | Neither strengthened nor weakened (percent) | Weakened (percent) | Significantly weakend (percent) | Number of respondents | |
Alabama | 0.0 | 25.0 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 |
Arkansas | 12.5 | 12.5 | 75.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
California | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Colorado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Florida | 0.0 | 62.5 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
Georgia | 0.0 | 16.7 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Iowa | 0.0 | 29.4 | 58.8 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 17 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Illinois | 7.4 | 22.2 | 66.7 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 27 |
Indiana | 6.7 | 46.7 | 46.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 15 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Kentucky | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Louisiana | 0.0 | 40.0 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Maryland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Michigan | 0.0 | 16.7 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12 |
Minnesota | 9.3 | 46.5 | 34.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 43 |
Missouri | 19.0 | 28.6 | 47.6 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 21 |
Mississippi | 0.0 | 40.0 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 |
Montana | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
North Carolina | 0.0 | 28.6 | 71.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 41.2 | 52.9 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 17 |
Nebraska | 7.7 | 26.9 | 42.3 | 15.4 | 7.7 | 26 |
New Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New York | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 42.9 | 57.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
Oklahoma | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Oregon | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Pennsylvania | 16.7 | 0.0 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
South Dakota | 0.0 | 52.4 | 42.9 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 21 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 16.7 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Texas | 0.0 | 14.3 | 85.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Virginia | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 |
Washington | 0.0 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 3 |
Wisconsin | 13.6 | 18.2 | 68.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 22 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 0.0 | 37.5 | 50.0 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 8 |
All States | 5.3 | 33.3 | 55.8 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 339 |