California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 2 - Department of Water Resources › Chapter 4.5 - Financial Assistance for Flood Management Projects and Small Flood Management Projects › Section 574 - Method to Determine a Significant Contribution of a Project to the Objectives

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
				Draft Nonfederal Cost-Sharing Report will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary
				Department or Board team comprised of one or more technical experts in the
				areas of flood management and Habitat, Open Space, and/or Recreation. After the
				technical review, the evaluation team will provide a narrative explanation for
				the Project's total contribution level and the percentages of Nonfederal
				Capital Costs assigned to each of the multipurpose Objectives. The method of
				calculating the total recommended State Cost-Share is provided in Section
				575.
(b) The threshold for significant
				contributions for the Open Space, Habitat, and Recreation Objectives is met
				when a minimum of five percent of the Nonfederal Capital Costs are spent for
				meeting an Objective. A Project with less than five percent of the Nonfederal
				Capital Costs allocated to the Open Space, Habitat, or Recreation Objective
				does not meet the criteria for a significant contribution toward attainment of
				these Objectives, but contributions may be counted toward the Combination
				Objective.
(c) A Project provides a
				significant contribution to the Disadvantaged Area Objective by increasing the
				level of flood protection by at least ten percent to a Benefited Area that has
				a median annual household income of less than 80 percent of the California
				Median Annual Household Income.
(d)
				A Project provides a significant contribution to the State Facilities Objective
				by increasing the level of flood protection by at least ten percent to State
				Water Supply Facilities or State Transportation Facilities.
(e) The Department or Board will use the
				following criteria to determine the costs associated with meeting the level of
				contribution for each of the multipurpose Project Objectives:
(1) Habitat Objective. A significant
				contribution for the Habitat Objective requires that at least five percent of
				the Project's estimated Nonfederal Capital Costs are contributed towards
				protecting, creating, enhancing, or providing opportunities for enhancing
				endangered species, riparian, aquatic, terrestrial, or other important
				habitats. These habitat improvements must achieve any of the following
				objectives beyond what is required for the Project or mitigation:
(A) Promote recovery of at-risk native fish,
				vegetation or wildlife species;
(B)
				Improve ecological functions of aquatic and/or terrestrial habitats to support
				sustainable populations of diverse fish, vegetation, and wildlife
				species;
(C) Improve conditions for
				upstream migration, spawning, egg incubation, emergence, rearing and emigration
				of priority fish species through adjustment of river flows and
				temperature;
(D) Cause increases in
				early lifestage survival for priority fish species;
(E) Improve fish passage through modification
				or removal of barriers;
(F)
				Influence geomorphic processes within the floodplain in a manner that improves
				habitat or reduces the potential for fish stranding;
(G) Enhance natural processes to support,
				with minimal human intervention, natural habitats that support native
				species;
(H) Remove and/or prevent
				the establishment of non-native species; or
(I) Provide other important habitat
				restoration opportunities.