Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 154 - Best Management Practices And Cost-Share Conditions › Section NR 154.03 - Cost-share rates

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) STATE COST-SHARE RATES.
(a) The cost-share rates in this section
				apply to eligible costs in projects funded under chs.
				NR 153 and 155 unless specified
				otherwise in this section.
(b)
				Except in cases of economic hardship, the maximum state cost-share rate for
				individual best management practices cost-shared in a targeted runoff
				management project under ch. NR 153 may not exceed 70%.
(c) The cost-share rates for best management
				practices implemented in an urban nonpoint source water pollution abatement and
				storm water management project under ch. NR 155 are as follows:
1. The cost-share rate may not exceed 70% of
				the eligible costs for individual best management practices committed on signed
				cost-share agreements or nonpoint source grants prior to October 29,
				1999.
2. The cost-share rate may
				not exceed 50% of the eligible cost for individual best management practices
				committed on signed cost-share agreements or nonpoint source grants after
				October 29, 1999.
(d) The
				state cost-share rates for land acquisition, storm sewer rerouting and removal
				of structures necessary to install structural urban best management practices
				may not exceed 50% of the eligible costs.
(e) Cost-share funding authorized under s.
				92.14,
				281.65,
				281.66
				or
				281.665,
				Stats., shall be considered part of the state rate.
(f) In cases of economic hardship, cost-share
				rates and flat rates in this section shall be increased in accordance with sub.
				(3), if the project is funded under ch. NR 153.
(g) The department may provide cost sharing
				up to the original cost-shared rate to replace an agricultural best management
				practice cost-shared under ch. NR 153, in accordance with s.
				NR
				153.15(2) (b).
(h) The cost-share rates for agricultural
				best management practices on cost-share agreements funded under ch. NR 153 and
				signed prior to May 1, 2020, may be amended to use the rates identified in this
				section.
(i) The following
				conditions further specify eligibility criteria for cost-share reimbursements
				under this section:
1. Wildlife habitat
				recreation associated with implementation of contour farming and stripcropping
				funded under ch. NR 153 has a maximum state cost-share rate of 70%.
2. Flat rates identified under par. (j) may
				be used in lieu of calculating cost-share amounts for any project.
3. For the best management practice under s.
				NR
				154.04(25), riparian buffers, a
				single payment in addition to installation costs may be made in accordance with
				the following:
a. For riparian buffers under
				s.
				NR
				154.04(25), $500 per acre used for
				the buffer.
c. Payments under this
				subdivision are eligible only for acreage upon which a commodity crop was
				harvested in at least 2 of the 5 years prior to the signing of the cost-share
				agreement. The 2 years need not be consecutive if separated by non-grain
				portions of a normal crop rotation.
4. Cost-share payments for high residue
				management systems may not be made for more than a total of 4 years.
5. Cost-share payments for cover crop may not
				be made for more than a total of 4 years.
6. Cost-share payments for nutrient
				management may not be made for more than a total of 4 years.
7. Cost-share payments for pesticide
				management may not be made for more than a total of 4 years.
8. The maximum amount cost-shared for leases
				of manure storage tanks shall be 70% of the down payment and lease cost of the
				tank during the grant period of the watershed project.
(j) A governmental unit may use the following
				state cost-share rates per acre in lieu of the state cost-share percentage
				listed in this section:
1. $9.00 per acre for
				contour farming.
2. $13.50 per acre
				for strip cropping.
4. $18.50 per
				acre per year for high residue management systems.
5. $70.00 per acre per year for cover
				crop.
7. A governmental unit may
				establish a flat rate for cost-sharing critical area stabilization in order to
				simplify the administration of cost-share funding for this best management
				practice. The flat rate shall be calculated based on the cost-share rate, up to
				70%, and the average cost of the practice.
8. $10.00 per acre for nutrient management
				plans.