U.S. General Accounting Office |
Survey on Food Security Act Conservation Compliance (GAO-03-492SP) |
Q40f. 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?: Required additional farm program benefits be subject to denial for violations of wetland conservation. |
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 | 0.0 | 62.5 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
California | 0.0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 |
Colorado | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Florida | 10.0 | 80.0 | 10.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Georgia | 12.5 | 37.5 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
Iowa | 4.8 | 52.4 | 38.1 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 21 |
Idaho | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Illinois | 0.0 | 46.9 | 53.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 32 |
Indiana | 5.9 | 70.6 | 23.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
Kansas | 0.0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Kentucky | 0.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Louisiana | 7.1 | 64.3 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 14 |
Maryland | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Michigan | 5.9 | 47.1 | 47.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 17 |
Minnesota | 6.1 | 63.3 | 26.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 49 |
Missouri | 19.0 | 47.6 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21 |
Mississippi | 0.0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6 |
Montana | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
North Carolina | 0.0 | 57.1 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
North Dakota | 0.0 | 70.0 | 30.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20 |
Nebraska | 2.9 | 52.9 | 35.3 | 5.9 | 2.9 | 34 |
New Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New York | 14.3 | 42.9 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
Ohio | 0.0 | 80.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 10 |
Oklahoma | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Oregon | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
Pennsylvania | 28.6 | 42.9 | 28.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
South Carolina | 0.0 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 |
South Dakota | 4.2 | 62.5 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 24 |
Tennessee | 0.0 | 42.9 | 57.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
Texas | 14.3 | 42.9 | 42.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7 |
Utah | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 |
Virginia | 0.0 | 80.0 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5 |
Washington | 0.0 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3 |
Wisconsin | 3.6 | 75.0 | 21.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 28 |
West Virginia | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 |
States with fewer than 15 respondents | 12.5 | 50.0 | 37.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 8 |
All States | 5.5 | 58.5 | 34.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 400 |