Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation › Chapter NR 7 - Recreational boating facilities program › Section NR 7.05 - Eligible projects

Current through June 24, 2024
Projects eligible for funding under this section consist
				  of:
(1) Facilities such as ramps and
				boarding docks required to gain access to the water.
(2) Structures such as bulkheads and
				breakwaters necessary to provide safe water conditions for boaters.
(3) Activities such as dredging of launch
				basins and harbors of refuge to provide safe water depths for recreational
				boating. Dredging of launch basins or harbors of refuge is an eligible project
				only when it is associated with project development at the project site.
				Maintenance dredging of launch basins and harbors of refuge is not an eligible
				item for funding.
(4) Support
				facilities including parking lots, signs, sanitary facilities, fencing or
				security lighting for the convenience of boaters.
(5) Improvement and repair of locks and
				facilities which provide access between waterways for operators of recreational
				watercraft.
(6) Acquisition of aids
				to navigation and regulatory markers including ground tackle. Only the costs of
				the aids to navigation and regulatory markers including shipping and ground
				tackle are eligible for funds under this chapter. The cost of repairing,
				placing, moving or removing aids to navigation or regulatory markers is not
				eligible for funds under this chapter.
(7) Acquisition of capital equipment that is
				necessary to cut and remove aquatic plants that are aquatic nuisances or that
				are detrimental to fish habitat with the following limitations:
(a) Eligible capital equipment shall be
				limited to cutting devices, barges with propelling motors, conveyors and
				trailering devices.
(b) Acquisition
				of capital equipment is eligible only when the acquisition is pursuant to a
				plan to cut and remove aquatic plants that is approved by the department. If
				the capital equipment is to be used on more than one lake, each lake shall be
				covered by a department approved plan to cut and remove aquatic plants and each
				plan shall outline the organizational relationships, rights and
				responsibilities for weed harvesting operations between the cooperating
				sponsors.
(c) For a single
				waterbody for which the equipment is being purchased the waterbody shall have a
				minimum acreage of harvestable aquatic plants of at least 30 acres. For several
				small waterbodies for which the equipment is being purchased, the cumulative
				acreage shall be at least 50 but no more than 100 acres of harvestable aquatic
				plants for all lakes combined and the waterbodies shall be in close proximity
				to each other as approved by the commission.
(d) All sponsors for small lakes cooperating
				in the purchase of weed harvesting equipment shall demonstrate financial
				participation in the purchase of the equipment.
(e) If a sponsor purchases new equipment, the
				department may not provide funds for the purchase of individual pieces of weed
				harvesting equipment more than once every 10 years. If a sponsor purchases used
				equipment, the 10-year limitation may be shortened to match the remaining years
				of utility of the equipment. If a sponsor sells any or all of the equipment
				funded under this chapter prior to the end of the 10 year or adjusted period,
				the sponsor shall repay the department 50% of the sale price.