Michigan Administrative Code
Department - Environmental Quality
Water Resources Division
Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (Clean Water Fund)
Section R. 324.8910 - Project selection

(a) The anticipated benefits of the project in relation to the costs.

(b) The ability of the applicant and the partners to carry out the project.

(c) A commitment on the part of the applicant to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the project, including a commitment to document improvements in water quality or the reduction of pollutant loads, and document the success of proactive efforts such as pollution prevention controls and information and education activities.

(d) The expectation for long-term water quality improvement.

(e) The expectation for long-term protection of high quality waters.

(f) The consistency of the project with remedial action plans and other regional water quality or watershed management plans approved by the department.

(g) Waters that do not attain applicable water quality standards, or waters that presently attain water quality standards but are threatened, respectively, as identified in the publication "Clean Water Act Section 303(d) List Michigan Submittal for 1998," revised annually by the department, as directed by Public Law 92-500, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.

(h) Commitments for financial and technical assistance from the partners in the project.

(i) Financial and other resource contributions by project participants in excess of that required in section 8802(4) of 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.8802(4).

(j) The commitment by the applicant and partners to institutionalize and enforce practices, using tools such as ordinances, to ensure water quality improves or is protected after the project ends.

(k) The length of time the applicant and partners have committed to maintain any structural best management practices.

(l) Whether the project provides benefits to sources of drinking water.

(m) Other information the department considers relevant.