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Policies for more information. Agricultural management measures
are described in the U.S. EPA guidance document, National
Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Pollution from
Agriculture, 2003. This guidance document is intended to provide
technical information to state program managers and others on
the best available, economically achievable means of reducing
NPS pollution of surface and ground water from agriculture. The
guidance provides background information about agricultural NPS
pollution, where it comes from, and how it enters the nation’s
waters; discusses the broad concept of assessing and addressing
water quality problems on a watershed level; and presents up-to-
date technical information about how to reduce agricultural NPS
pollution. Additionally, the Natural Resources Conservation
Service has Field Office Technical Guides for agriculturally-
focused BMPs, which are produced