Agricultural Conservation Easement Program funding in Montana

Montana x 10.931 is an ACEP join, not an acreage census

This page pairs CFDA 10.931, AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROGRAM, with Montana place of performance. ACEP, in program language, helps protect agricultural lands and wetlands through easements. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $387,151,326.06 on 47 awards. The extract does not list acres, easement types, or landowners. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state conserves more land, and not a claim that 47 awards equal 47 ranches.

Other USDA listings — CRP on 10.069, EQIP, or different easement titles — sit outside $387,151,326.06 unless they also carry 10.931. Montana’s Impact Aid and BIA facilities joins on this slice are Education and Interior overlays, not NRCS subsets. Mixing ACEP with CRP would invent a combined conservation figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and grassland loss is not causation. Land-cover figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Montana locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $387,151,326.06 in the state treasury.

47 awards behind $387.2 million

Mean obligation is about $8,237,262.26 if $387,151,326.06 were divided evenly across 47 lines. That ratio is not a published easement price and not a cost per acre. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of easements, counties, or acres.

Forty-seven lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent landowner names. Open Agricultural Conservation Easement Program in Montana for the stored table. Do not convert 47 into a map of Montana ranches. The $387,151,326.06 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not easements already recorded. Inspect named lines rather than inferring enrolled acreage.

ACEP obligations are not easement deeds already recorded

Easement awards often obligate as projects close and draw as appraisals and closings proceed. The $387,151,326.06 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of acres protected and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. An NRCS ACEP signup table dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses CFDA 10.931, Montana geography, and the obligation metric.

The listing title is Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. This extract does not split Agricultural Land Easements from Wetland Reserve Easements, and it does not split grasslands from cropland. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 47 awards, CFDA 10.931, and Montana. This page will not invent an easement-type share. Rocky Boy regional water on 15.525 is an Interior overlay.

What the Montana ACEP table omits

The extract has no acreage, no per-acre price, and no county list. Facts remain $387,151,326.06, 47 awards, CFDA 10.931, and Montana. This page will not invent a ranking against other states’ 10.931 joins, including Mississippi’s separate overlay. ALE and WRE can both sit in the file; the extract does not label them.

Montana federal spending and Montana programs place 10.931 among other listings. CFDA 10.931 is the national catalog line. All spending ties indexes other CFDA x state pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of USDA spending the packet never computed. The $387,151,326.06 figure is the tagged pair only. Forty-seven awards remain a project file, not an acreage ranking.

Where the 10.931 x Montana overlay lives

Start with Agricultural Conservation Easement Program in Montana for the 47-award table behind $387,151,326.06. CFDA 10.931 is the nationwide listing. Montana federal spending and Montana programs give state context. All spending ties is the shelf for other program-by-state joins on the same obligation metric. Forty-seven awards totaling $387,151,326.06 remain a project-style administrative file, not an acreage census. Landowner names and per-acre prices are not in this packet. Easement-type splits are omitted because they are not in the facts. The $387,151,326.06 total is the tagged pair only.

Questions

How much ACEP funding is obligated in Montana?

USAspending.gov shows $387,151,326.06 in obligations for CFDA 10.931 with Montana as place of performance, across 47 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not Montana’s full conservation budget. Other USDA listings are outside this join unless they also carry 10.931.

Do 47 awards mean 47 Montana easements?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not an easement or acre census. The packet does not name landowners. See the Montana 10.931 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include CRP in Montana?

No. This page is CFDA 10.931, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. CRP and other conservation titles use different CFDA numbers. Those dollars are not inside $387,151,326.06 unless the award also carries 10.931. The extract has no acreage table.

Is $387 million already spent on Montana easements?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $387,151,326.06 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Closing draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.