Grants require a minimum 25 percent local match of funds, which may include in-kind services. Applications are due by 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28. Funds are available to local units of government and nonprofit entities for implementing physical improvements in DEQ-approved watershed management plans. Approved watershed management plans are those that have written approval of a DEQ Surface Water Quality Division district supervisor or the chief of the DEQ s Nonpoint Source Unit. Remedial Action Plans and Lakewide Management Plans developed under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement are approved watershed management plans.
Physical improvements are vegetative and structural best management practices.
Projects that develop watershed management plans, implement nonphysical improvements in approved watershed plans, or for targeted nonpoint source control efforts under the federal Clean Water Act Section 319 grant program. Applications are due by 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28. The DEQ s priority for using Section 319 grant funds this year is the development of approvable watershed plans. Watershed planning projects require a minimum 10 percent local match, which may include in-kind services. Two other categories also will be considered for funding.