Yolo County Resource Conservation District

Yolo County Resource Conservation District, a local government entity subsidiary of Yolo County, California, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering agricultural conservation technical assistance and renewable energy technology evaluation to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

The district acts exclusively as a grant recipient (100% of recent awards as prime recipient, zero subcontract involvement) rather than a federal contractor. All eight awards in the source data span federal grant programs — specifically USDA NRCS Cooperative Agreements under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (CFDA 10.912) and Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreements, alongside a Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy grant focused on biogas-to-renewable-fuel technology evaluation. Customer concentration is split across USDA NRCS (two awards) and Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service/Region 8 (two awards each), with a single Department of Energy technology award, covering 88% of the award count.

Recent capability work includes a $125 thousand NRCS Cooperative Agreement awarded August 8, 2024, running through September 30, 2027, to increase capacity for technical assistance support to NRCS clients in Yolo County and deliver conservation assistance, project and program management, and monitoring support — focused on soil health, water resource management, and climate-smart agriculture implementation. A predecessor NRCS technical assistance award for Yolo County landowners and land managers ran from September 2023 through September 2026. An October 2022 Department of Energy NRCS-administered grant supported evaluation of trifts biogas-to-renewable-fuel technology, completing September 30, 2023.

Activity is sparse and episodic — one award per year across 2015, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 — with combined potential value of $151 thousand but combined dollars obligated at $801 thousand (531% of potential value), indicating awards are obligating near or at their full values. The district functions as a capacity builder and technical service provider for agricultural conservation programming at the county scale rather than as a federal services vendor or contractor.