California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 2 - Department of Water Resources › Chapter 2.4 - Grant Program Under the Urban Creeks Restoration and Flood Control Act of 1985 › Section 451.4 - Applications for Financial Assistance

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Grant
				funding in an amount not to exceed $1 million per project shall be available
				for eligible project costs associated with projects described in section
				451.3 above. Assistance may be
				given under the Urban Creek Restoration Program to projects which involve the
				assistance or participation of Federal or State agencies, so long as those
				projects are sponsored by at least one local agency and at least one citizens'
				group.
(b) The Department shall
				conduct periodic grant application cycles based upon availability of funding
				and the existing pool of projects approved for funding. For each grant
				application cycle, the Department shall notify the public that financial
				assistance is available. Applications for funding shall be due 75 days after
				mailing of the notice. When funding constraints require a streamlined
				application cycle, the notice shall so state and applications for funding shall
				be due 30 days after mailing of the notice. Applications may be made for
				projects to be implemented in phases. The Department may require a new
				application for funding for each phase of a project, and may re-evaluate the
				project during each successive application cycle. Unfunded applications from a
				previous cycle may, at the discretion of the Department, be carried over for
				consideration in the next application cycle.
(c) Applicants for financial assistance shall
				file a written application. A complete application shall include, but not be
				limited to, the following information:
(1) A
				cover sheet identifying all sponsors, co-sponsors, the program manager and any
				endorsers of the project, and providing information regarding the sponsor's
				legal authority to submit the application. Attached to the cover sheet shall be
				a map showing the location of and access to the proposed project
				site.
(2) A summary statement
				describing the purpose of the project proposal. The summary statement shall
				address how the project or plan proposes to meet the program objectives set
				forth in sections
				451.2 and
				451.3 above and fits within the
				goals of California Water Code section
				7048, and
				whether the grant will assist in planning or implementation of a creek
				restoration project, or both.
(3) A
				description of the stream restoration or watershed management techniques the
				applicant proposes to use.
(4) A
				description of the project's relationship to other flood control projects,
				which states whether the proposed project and/or plan supplements or would be
				in lieu of a local or cooperative local-federal flood control project, and
				whether it is consistent with applicable local land use, water management
				and/or general plans. If there is any relationship between the proposed project
				and other flood control projects, the description shall identify the agencies
				and organizations involved and summarize the plans and features of the other
				projects.
(5) A description of the
				proposed project's use of public participation in planning, design or
				implementation of the project.
(6)
				A description of the educational benefits to be derived by the public and any
				technical advances or demonstrations of new methods of stream restoration or
				stream corridor management the project may provide. This should include a
				description of the photographs, charts, videotapes, reports, or other material
				the applicant plans to develop to illustrate the methods used and the results
				obtained by the project. At the completion of the project, copies of these
				materials are to be submitted to the Department of Water Resources, which shall
				make them available to the public upon request and payment of its reasonable
				reproduction costs.
(7) A
				description of plans for long-term management or maintenance of the stream
				which the project will affect.
(8)
				A disclosure of other options available to the applicant to carry out the
				proposed project if the Urban Creek Restoration Program is unable to provide
				full funding, including other potential funding sources. The applicant shall
				identify the priority set by the applicant on various project components, to be
				used in the event partial funding is provided.
(9) A description of all anticipated local
				contributions to defray the cost of the project, which may include financing,
				materials, paid or volunteer labor, administrative services, rights-of-way,
				easements, equipment or landfill fees.
(10) A project budget reflecting all costs
				associated with the project, and designating specifically costs to be covered
				by the grant request, costs to be covered by local contributions and costs to
				be covered by any other source. The budget should quantify costs for planning
				and design, ground area of restoration work, labor, material and equipment
				requirements, and display the total project budget in relation to the total
				amount of the grant request.
(11) A
				project schedule designating anticipated start and finish dates, and
				highlighting any times or components which are contingent upon the actions of
				other entities.
(12) During the
				administration of this program and the evaluation of applications, additional
				technical, financial, hydrologic, bioengineering, soil and water quality,
				environmental, water rights, legal analyses and justifications, and other
				relevant information may be required by the Department.