County Questionnaire Results

July 2003

In spring of 2003 DNR sent a questionnaire to each county land conservation department to identify which components of the NR 151 agricultural performance standards implementation strategy the county is willing or able to undertake. Staff from DNR recorded and tabulated the results which are summarized below. Frequency data along with follow-up comments are broken down by the ten components in the strategy. DNR will use information gathered from the surveys to guide development of internal workload plans as well as cooperative working agreements with each county.

• The entire 10 page survey analysis is available in one file: Implementing_Agricultural_Performance_Standards [PDF 221KB]
• The entire set of 11 comment files are available in a Zip file which contains the PDF files: County_Comments [ZIP 1.54MB]
• The raw data results are available in a Zip file that contains an Excel spreadsheet: county_survey_results [ZIP 25KB]

Questionnaire Results

Sixty-two counties returned completed questionnaires for an 86 percent response rate. As a general indication of counties' willingness to assume responsibility for implementation steps, 26 (43%) of the respondents answered "Yes" to more than half of the questions while 18 (29%) said they were unsure the majority of the time. Only two counties responded "No" to the majority of questions.

The results are arranged according to the strategy components. When reviewing the results, it might be useful to view the strategy as three distinct categories of activities. Components 1-3 establish the framework for how the work will get done, components 4-8 represent the logistical steps of field-level implementation, and components 9-10 represent follow-up and reporting steps.

The following links will give you more detailed information on each component.

The following links provide more detailed information on each component

• Component 1: Plan the Implementation Approach
• Component 2: Define Level of Agencies' Commitment to NR 151 Workload
• Component 3: Conduct Information and Education (I&E) Activities
• Component 4: Determine Current Compliance
• Component 5: Prepare Report and Notify landowners of Compliance Status
• Component 6: Secure Funding and Technical Assistance/Issue NR 151 Notice
• Component 7: Administer Funding and Technical Assistance / Re-evaluate Parcel
• Component 8: Enforcement
• Component 9: Ongoing Compliance Monitoring
• Component 10: Annual Reporting
• Additional Questionnaire Information
• County Survey Home