Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 155 - Urban Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Abatement And Storm Water Management Grant Program › Section NR 155.28 - Grant reimbursement procedures

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) RUNOFF
				MANAGEMENT GRANT AGREEMENTS.
(a) State
				cost-share funds may be used to share in the actual cost required for the
				installation of eligible urban best management practices identified in runoff
				management grant agreements described in s.
				NR
				155.21.
(b) Governmental units and the Board of
				Regents shall comply with the following procedures when requesting
				reimbursement:
1. Reimbursement requests shall
				be submitted on forms provided by the department.
Note:
Reimbursement request forms may be
				  obtained, at no charge, from the Bureau of Community Financial Assistance,
				  Department of Natural Resources, Box 7921 CFA/8, Madison, Wisconsin
				  53707.
2. All reimbursement
				requests shall be submitted to the department within the time frame established
				in the grant agreement. Payments for reimbursement requests submitted after the
				deadlines established in the grant agreement or grant amendment shall be
				subject to the availability of state funds and to financial commitments made to
				other grantees by the department.
a. Final
				reimbursement requests for runoff management grants shall be submitted to the
				department after the urban best management practice has been verified as
				properly installed and its cost has been substantiated by the documentation
				required by the department.
b. The
				grantee may submit a reimbursement request for a partially installed urban best
				management practice with approval from the department. In making its
				reimbursement decision, the department shall consider the level of pollution
				control provided by the completed component and the component's structural and
				functional relationship to other components of the urban best management
				practice.
c. The department may
				deny reimbursement if a cost-share agreement or amendment is not in accordance
				with the project application or the runoff management grant agreement.
Note:
Cost-share calculation and practice
				  verification forms may be obtained, at no charge, from the Bureau of Community
				  Financial Assistance, Department of Natural Resources, Box 7921, Madison,
				  Wisconsin 53707.
3. Progress reports required by the
				department shall accompany each reimbursement request. A project final report
				shall be submitted on forms available from the department and shall accompany
				the final reimbursement request.
Note:
Forms can be obtained from the
				  department's Bureau of Watershed Management or the department's Bureau of
				  Community Financial Assistance, 101 S. Webster St., PO Box 7921, Madison, WI
				  53707-7921.
4.
				Reimbursements may not exceed the grant budget line for that practice, unless
				amended.
5. The department in the
				scope of the grant agreement may further specify eligible costs, reimbursement
				amounts and reimbursement filing deadlines.
6. Failure to submit reports on schedule may
				result in withholding of grant payments.
7. The department shall deny reimbursements
				requested for installed practices that are not included in a cost-share
				agreement or enumerated as a grantee-installed practice on the grant agreement
				or otherwise authorized by this chapter. Reimbursement for local assistance
				expenses shall be limited to those activities identified as a grant budget line
				item or specifically enumerated in the grant agreement scope.