Categorical Exclusion

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Exclusion Text

(USDA-01d-FSA) Construction or ground disturbance actions. (i) Bridges; (ii) Chiseling and subsoiling in areas not previously tilled; (iii) Construction of a new farm storage facility; (iv) Dams; (v) Dikes and levees; (vi) Diversions; (vii) Drop spillways; (viii) Dugouts; (ix) Excavation; (x) Grade stabilization structures; (xi) Grading, leveling, shaping and filling in areas or to depths not previously disturbed; (xii) Installation of structures designed to regulate water flow such as pipes, flashboard risers, gates, chutes, and outlets; (xiii) Irrigation systems; (xiv) Land smoothing; (xv) Line waterways or outlets; (xvi) Lining; (xvii) Livestock crossing facilities; (xviii) Pesticide containment facility; (xix) Pipe drop; (xx) Pipeline for watering facility; (xxi) Ponds, including sealing and lining; (xxii) Precision land farming with ground disturbance; (xxiii) Riparian buffer establishment; (xxiv) Roads, including access roads; (xxv) Rock barriers; (xxvi) Rock filled infiltration trenches; (xxvii) Sediment basin; (xxviii) Sediment structures; (xxix) Site preparation for planting or seeding in areas not previously tilled; (xxx) Soil and water conservation structures; (xxxi) Stream bank and shoreline protection; (xxxii) Structures for water control; (xxxiii) Subsurface drains; (xxxiv) Surface roughening; (xxxv) Terracing; (xxxvi) Underground outlets; (xxxvii) Watering tank or trough installation, if in areas not previously disturbed; (xxxviii) Wells; and (xxxix) Wetland restoration.