Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 199 - Municipal flood control grants › Section NR 199.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
				"Acquisition cost" means the fair market value of the property, as determined
				by department appraisal guidelines, and reasonable costs related to the
				purchase of the property that are limited to the cost of appraisals, land
				surveys, relocation payments, title evidence, recording fees, historical and
				cultural assessments required by the department and environmental inspections.
				It does not include attorneys fees, environmental clean up costs, brokerage
				fees paid by the buyer, real estate transfer taxes or any other cost not
				identified in this subsection.
(2)
				"Agricultural use" has the meaning given in s.
				30.40(1),
				Stats.
(3) "Applicant" means the
				township, village, city or metropolitan sewerage district that applies for a
				grant under this chapter.
(4)
				"Conservation easement" has the meaning given in s.
				700.40(1)
				(a), Stats.
(5) "Department" means the Wisconsin
				department of natural resources.
(6) "Development" means any artificial change
				to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to the
				construction or placement of buildings or other structures; the construction of
				additions or substantial improvement to buildings or other structures; mining,
				dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations; and the
				storage, deposition or extraction of materials.
(7) "Flowage easement" means a holder's
				nonpossessory interest in real property granting the holder the right to flow
				the grantor's lands for flood storage or natural riverine hydrologic
				cycles.
(8) "Force account" means
				the performance of a development project with the resources of the grant
				recipient, including personnel services, equipment and materials.
(9) "Grant period" means the time period
				stated in the grant agreement during which the grant recipient is eligible to
				expend funds for a project and be reimbursed for those expenditures.
(10) "Grant recipient" means the township,
				village, city or metropolitan sewerage district that has received a grant under
				this chapter.
(11) "Land management
				plan" means a plan approved by the department detailing how lands acquired with
				grants under this chapter shall be managed and maintained.
(12) "Local share" means that portion of the
				project costs that is not funded by the department.
(12m) "Metropolitan sewerage district" means
				a sewerage district created under ss.
				200.01
				to
				200.15 or
				200.21 to
				200.65,
				Stats.
(13) "Mitigation" means
				implementing specific activities to remove structures from flood hazard areas
				or to protect structures from flooding.
(14) "Parcel" means one contiguous block of
				land under a single ownership.
(15)
				"Project priority list" means a ranking by the department of municipal flood
				control or riparian restoration projects in the order of their scheduled
				receipt of funds.
(16) "Property
				acquisition" means fee title ownership or an easement in perpetuity in the
				land.
(17) "Repetitive loss
				structure" means any structure with 2 or more flood losses, each greater than
				$1,000, in any 10 year period since 1978.
(18) "Riparian restoration project" means
				eligible activities which will restore or enhance the natural beneficial uses
				and value of a watercourse.
(19)
				"Structure" means any manmade object with form, shape and utility, either
				permanently or temporarily attached to, placed upon or set into the ground,
				stream bed or lake bed, including, but not limited to, buildings, storage
				tanks, bridges, dams, channels and culverts.
(20) "Substantial damage" means flood damages
				to any structure that equal or exceeds 50% of the present equalized assessed
				value of the structure.