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f) Ongoing efforts to encourage and foster a spirit of cooperation and partnership among county, tribal, environmental, and agricultural interests to better assure the program success; g) Ongoing efforts to improve compliance with other laws designed to protect water quality and fish habitat; and h) A description of efforts showing how relying upon voluntary stewardship practices as the primary method of protecting critical areas and does not require the cessation of agricultural activities. 2. Facilitate and assist the county watershed group with the development of the five- year status report to the director of the Conservation Commission and COUNTY. At five year intervals from the date of receipt of funding, each county watershed group must submit a report to the director of the Commission and the county on whether it has met the work plan's protection and enhancement goals and benchmarks. The five year status report should include a summary of how plan implementation is satisfying the flowing plan elements through VSP implementation: a) Develop goals for participation by agricultural operators conducting commercial and noncommercial agricultural activities in the watershed necessary to meet the protection and enhancement benchmarks of the work plan; b) Ensure outreach and technical assistance is provided to agricultural operators in the watershed; c) Create measurable benchmarks that, within ten years after the receipt of funding, are designed to result in (i) the protection of critical area functions and values and (ii) the enhancement of critical area functions and values through voluntary, incentive-based measures; d) Work with the entity providing technical assistance to ensure that individual stewardship plans contribute to the goals and benchmarks of the work plan; e) Incorporate into the work plan any existing development regulations relied upon to achieve the goals and benchmarks for protection; f) Establish baseline monitoring for: (i) Participation activities and implementation of the voluntary stewardship plans and projects; (ii) stewardship activities; and (iii) the effects on critical areas and agriculture relevant to the protection and enhancement benchmarks developed for the watershed; g) Conduct periodic evaluations, institute adaptive management, and provide a written report of the status of plans and accomplishments to the COUNTY and to the Conservation Commission within sixty days after the end of each biennium; h) Assist state agencies in their monitoring programs; and i) Satisfy any other reporting requirements of the program. j) VSP cost-share projects that are funded using any amount of Conservation Commission VSP funds shall be reported in the five year report under RCW 36.70A.720 (2) (b) (i) and (c) (i). VSP Agreement Between the KITTITAS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT and KITTITAS COUNTY. Page 13 of 15