(a)Stewardship component of CSP payments. (1) The conservation stewardship plan, as applicable, divides the land area to be enrolled in the CSP into land use categories, such as irrigated and non-irrigated cropland, irrigated and non-irrigated pasture, pastured cropland and range land, among other categories. (2) NRCS will determine an appropriate stewardship payment rate for each land use category using the following methodology: (i) NRCS will initially calculate the average 2001 rates using the