Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General
Chapter NR 155 - Urban Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Abatement And Storm Water Management Grant Program
Section NR 155.17 - Project application
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง NR 155.17
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) APPLICATION PROCESS.
(a) Subject to the availability of funds, the
department shall:
1. Solicit applications for
projects to be funded under this chapter by providing public notice that
application materials are available upon request.
2. Distribute to any potential applicant that
requests it a copy of the application, instructions for completing the
application and guidelines that the department will use to score project
applications.
(b) A
governmental unit or the Board of Regents may request funding under this
chapter for one or more projects.
(c) Applicants shall submit completed project
applications to the department in order to be considered for funding in the
following calendar year. The department shall establish the deadline for
project application and shall include the deadline in the application
materials.
(2) REQUIRED INFORMATION. An applicant shall submit all of the information required by this subsection to be considered for funding under this chapter.
(a) Administrative information required by
the department to administer the grant request. Administrative information
shall include all of the following unless otherwise exempted in this section:
1. Applicant name.
2. Name and title of authorized
representative.
3. Contact name and
telephone.
4. Type of governmental
unit and applicant address.
5.
Applicant's signature.
6. Project
scope.
7. Other information that
the department determines necessary to process the application.
(b) Screening information required
by the department to determine whether the proposed project complies with basic
program and statutory funding requirements. This information shall include all
of the following unless otherwise exempted in this section:
1. Certification that the project meets the
eligibility requirements of s.
NR 155.14(2).
2. A map of the project area showing the
watershed, subwatershed, or specific site to be served by the project. The map
shall be accompanied by information the applicant is aware of that concerns
environmental contamination, endangered, threatened or wetland resources,
historic properties or historic places contained in the project area and
potentially affected by the project.
3. For a project to be funded with a
cost-sharing grant, documentation that the project is in an urban area. For a
project to be funded with a local assistance grant, documentation that the
project area is in an urban area or an area expected to become urban within 20
years of the application date. In determining if a project area is, or will
become urban:
a. Existing and projected
population shall be the population shown by the last federal census or by any
subsequent population estimate under s.
16.96,
Stats.
b. When the project covers
part of a municipality or campus, such as a project for a urban best management
practice that serves a limited geographic area or an urban runoff control plan
for a limited area, the area over which the population density is calculated
shall be limited, to the extent allowed by the population data, to that
included in the project area.
c.
When the project covers substantially all of a municipality or campus, such as
a project for a comprehensive municipal urban runoff management plan, an
information and education program or a municipal ordinance, the area over which
the population density is calculated shall be the entire area within the
municipal or campus boundary to the extent practical given existing census
data.
d. The department may waive
the information requirement under this subdivision for projects on a University
of Wisconsin System campus meeting the requirements of s.
NR 155.13(2).
4. For projects to be funded with a
cost-share grant, documentation that the applicant can ensure adequate
implementation of construction site pollution control, and of urban runoff
control after development, for development and redevelopment of project sites
of one or more acres within the municipality or campus. Information shall be
submitted indicating the extent to which the applicant can assure management of
urban runoff from these sources. Information includes:
a. Adoption, implementation and enforcement
of local regulations for construction site erosion control consistent with
non-agricultural performance standards in s.
NR 151.11.
Note: Chapter NR 152 contains a model ordinance to guide municipalities in developing local regulations to control construction site erosion.
b. Adoption,
implementation, and enforcement of urban runoff control plans and ordinances to
control post-construction runoff from areas of new development and
redevelopment consistent with non-agricultural performance standards in subch.
III of ch. NR 151.
Note: Chapter NR 152 contains a model ordinance to guide municipalities in developing local regulations to control post-construction urban runoff from areas of new development and redevelopment.
c. Adoption
of municipal storm water plans or policies for developed urban areas consistent
with non-agricultural performance standards in s.
NR 151.13.
5. A list of the urban best management
practices for which funding is requested, including easements or property
acquisitions associated with any of these practices, and identification of
practice eligibility under s.
NR 155.15.
6.
Evidence that the proposed project is consistent with non-agricultural and
transportation performance standards contained in subchs. III and IV of ch. NR
151.
7. Evidence that
inter-municipal agreements have been or will be executed when needed to assure
design, construction, operation and maintenance of urban runoff control
implemented cooperatively by multiple units of government or the Board of
Regents.
8. A list of local
assistance activities for which funding is requested and an identification of
eligibility under s.
NR 155.16.
9.
Certification that the activities listed on the application will be completed
within the allowable time period specified by the department in the application
materials.
10. Certification that
the applicant has made arrangements to provide the staff or contract services
necessary to implement the project.
11. Certification that staff and contractors
designated for the project have adequate training, knowledge and experience to
implement the proposed project.
12.
Other information that the department may require to screen the application for
compliance with minimum requirements.
13. Certification that the applicant will
obtain control of the property upon which the practice will be constructed
prior to commencement of the grant period.
14. Written confirmation that the applicant's
prior urban nonpoint construction grant projects will be completed within the
applicable grant period or periods.
(c) Scoring information required by the
department to evaluate and rank the project. Scoring information includes all
of the following unless otherwise exempted in this section.
1. Fiscal accountability and
cost-effectiveness information for the proposed project including:
a. A work schedule.
b. A financial budget showing total
costs.
c. All funding sources,
including sources of in-kind local share donation as provided for in s.
NR 155.23(2).
d. Documentation of project
cost-effectiveness.
2. A
project evaluation and monitoring strategy including pre- and post-project
information concerning actual or potential changes in land use, changes in
pollutant loading or changes in chemical, physical or biological conditions of
the water resources affected by the project.
3. Evidence of local support and involvement
including support from governmental units, the Board of Regents, interest
groups, landowners and land operators that need to implement urban best
management practices. Evidence of local involvement also includes a
governmental unit's continuous decision-making process which ensures
participation by minority and low income populations in affected areas, along
with majority populations, to ensure that as an outcome all people receive the
benefits of a clean, healthy and sustainable environment regardless of race,
national origin or income.
4. The
project priority in relation to other department water basin priorities, such
as those identified on priority lists established by the department or its
basin partnership teams, or the priority based on department statewide research
needs relating to evaluation of urban runoff control technologies.
5. The water quality need to be addressed by
the project including impairment or threats to water quality caused or
contributed to by urban runoff in the area that will be addressed by the
project. The water quality need shall be related to one or more of the
following categories:
a. Existence of impaired
water bodies that the department has identified to the federal environmental
protection agency under
33 USC
1313(d) (1) (A).
b. Existence of groundwater impairment due to
nitrates or other compounds exceeding the ground water enforcement
standards.
c. Existence of surface
waters identified in an areawide water quality management plan as partially
meeting designated uses.
d.
Existence of surface waters where water quality is significantly threatened
based on changes in land use or evidence of declining water quality.
e. Existence of groundwater impairment due to
nitrates or other compounds that are greater than the preventive action limit
but less than the enforcement standard.
f. Existence of high quality, recreationally
significant waters, such as outstanding or exceptional resource waters, where
potential degradation is a concern but the water body is not considered to be
currently threatened.
g. Existence
of waters that are neither high quality, recreationally significant nor
considered to be currently threatened but where urban runoff control is needed
to prevent eventual degradation.
h.
Existence of waters used for public drinking water supplies where control of
contaminants is desired in the designated wellhead protection or source water
protection area.
6. The
extent of pollutant control to be achieved by the project, including the level
of knowledge concerning the amount of pollution control needed to achieve water
quality goals and the extent of pollution control that will be achieved in the
project area.
7. Consistency
between the project and other resource management plans such as urban runoff
control plans, land use plans, growth management plans, wellhead protection
plans, lake management plans, county land and water resource management plans
and remedial action plans.
8. The
use of other funding sources to supplement or reduce the state cost share
provided under this chapter, such as funding from federal, state, local and
interest group sources or the application of in-kind contributions to capital
costs only.
9. The extent of local
implementation programs in effect over the project area, including information
required to determine the project multiplier under s.
NR 155.19(4).
10. The way in which the proposed project
will contribute to meeting storm water requirements under ch. NR 216 for the
city of Racine.
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