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Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Agriculture Conservation Easements Program (ACEP) - Combines the functions of the former Wetlands Reserve Program, the Grassland Reserve Program (easement portion), and the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program. The program provides financial and technical assistance to help conserve agricultural lands and wetlands and their related benefits. Authorized by the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79).

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Regional Conservation Partnerships Program (RCPP) - Combines the authorities of four former conservation programs—the Agricultural Water Enhancement program, the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Program, the Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative, and the Great Lakes Basin Program. Promotes coordination between NRCS and its partners to deliver conservation assistance to producers and landowners on a regional or watershed scale. NRCS provides assistance to producers through partnership agreements and through program farmer cooperatives, water districts, municipal waste or wastewater treatments entities, higher education institutions, and organizations with a history of working cooperatively with producers, including nonprofit organizations. Assistance is coordinated through RCPP but provided largely through other NRCS programs. Authorized by the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79).

5. Maritime Products: Import licences are required for some maritime products, with the aim of protecting human, animal or plant life or health (2021).

Agricultural Marketing Services (AMS): National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program - Assists certified organic operations in defraying the costs associated with organic certification. Organic operations may receive up to 75% of their certification costs up to a maximum of USD 750 annually per certification scope.

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Farmland Protection Program - Conservation plans are made and easements purchased through State, tribe, or local government agencies to protect topsoil by limiting conversion to nonagricultural uses. Conservation plans must be carried out over the 30 years or more of the easement term. Authorized by the 1996 Farm Act (Public Law 104-127); renamed under 2008 Farm Act (PL 110 246). Functions moved to Agricultural Conservation Easements Program under the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79).

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) - Encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that reduce environmental and resource problems. Half of the funds are targeted to livestock production practices. Authorized by the 1996 Farm Act (PL 104-127) and reauthorized under the 2002 Farm Act (PL 107 171), 2008 Farm Act (PL 110-246) and 2014 Farm Act (PL 113 79).

8. Hazardous Waste: Import licences are required for hazardous waste, with the aim of protecting human, animal or plant life or health (2021).

Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS): Agricultural Water Enhancement Program - The Agricultural Water Enhancement Program (AWEP) is a voluntary conservation initiative that provides financial and technical assistance to agricultural producers to implement agricultural water enhancement activities on agricultural land for the purposes of conserving surface and ground water and improving water quality. Functions moved to the Regional Conservation Partnerships Program by the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79). Payments due to producers from contracts signed in previous program years were paid during FY2016.

Non-Product-Specific AMS: Biomass crop assistance program: Provides financial assistance to producers or entities that deliver eligible biomass material to designated biomass conversion facilities for use as heat, power, biobased products or biofuels. Assistance is for costs of collection, harvest, storage and transportation associated with delivery of eligible materials. Reauthorized under the 2014 Farm Act (PL 113-79).

Non-Product-Specific AMS: Rural Energy for America Program (formerly Renewable Energy Program)