; and (iii) the initiative. (B) Technical assistance, including training, to producers in the Great Lakes basin for the implementation of activities that reduce or prevent nonpoint pollution of ground and surface water from agricultural activities. (C) Development and implementation of voluntary State verification programs, with a funding priority for voluntary State verification programs that incorporate Department of Agriculture conservation planning and practice standards. (2) Funding priority for certain producers In implementing the initiative, the Secretary shall establish a funding priority within the Great Lakes basin for payments to producers under this chapter for producers that participate in the initiative with the purpose of achieving verification through a State verification program. (c) Use of existing data In establishing the initiative, the Secretary shall, where available, use existing plans, models, and assessments. (d) Collaboration In carrying out activities under the initiative, a State may collaborate with entities that have agricultural or environmental expertise, including academic or nonprofit organizations. (e) Definitions In this section: (1) Great Lakes State The term Great Lakes State means any one of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin. (2) Initiative The term initiative means the Great Lakes basin initiative for agricultural nonpoint source pollution prevention established under subsection (a). (3) Nonpoint source pollution The term nonpoint source pollution is used within the meaning of that term under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ( 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.). (4) State verification program The term State verification program means a program established by a Great Lakes State to verify producer implementation of practices approved by the State to reduce nonpoint pollution of ground and surface water from agricultural activities, which may include verification by a third party approved by the State or the