Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection General › Chapter NR 153 - Targeted Runoff Management And Notice Of Discharge Grant Programs › Section NR 153.15 - Cost sharing for best management practices

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) ELIGIBLE COSTS.
(a) The department may provide cost sharing
				for the construction or implementation of best management practices in any
				project selected for funding under the chapter. The department may attribute
				design and construction services costs to the cost of construction or
				implementation of the best management practice. State and local administrative
				permit fees are not reimbursable as part of the construction cost.
Note: Although local administrative fees are not
				  reimbursable, the department may reimburse governmental units for design and
				  construction services subject to the limitations of s.
				  NR
				  153.27(4).
(b)
1. If
				the purpose of the best management practice is to comply with agricultural
				performance standards and prohibitions identified in subch. II of ch. NR 151,
				technical standards for the best management practice shall be included in
				subch. VIII of ch. ATCP 50 in order for the best management practice to be
				considered eligible for cost sharing under this chapter.
2. Subd.1 does not apply if the department
				determines there is no technical standard in subch. VIII of ch. ATCP 50 capable
				of meeting the performance standard or prohibition.
(c) If the purpose of the best management
				practice is to comply with a non-agricultural performance standard under subch.
				III or IV of ch. NR 151, or if the purpose of the best management practice is
				to reduce pollution from a source for which a performance standard is not
				included in ch. NR 151, the best management practice shall meet one of the
				following criteria to be considered eligible for cost sharing under this
				chapter:
1. Be included in ch. NR
				154.
2. Be included in subch. VIII
				of ch. ATCP 50.
3. Be available in
				accordance with the technical standards development and dissemination
				requirements of subch. V of ch. NR 151.
4. Be identified by the department as an
				interim best management practice or alternative design criteria in accordance
				with sub. (3) (b) 4.
(d)
				The best management practice shall be constructed in accordance with applicable
				technical standards and conditions identified in this chapter, subch. VIII of
				ch. ATCP 50, ch. NR 154, in a document that meets the requirements of subch. V
				of ch. NR 151 or a runoff management grant agreement as provided for under sub.
				(3) in order to be considered eligible for cost sharing under this
				chapter.
(e) The best management
				practice shall be included as an eligible item for cost sharing on a runoff
				management grant agreement, signed by the department and the governmental unit
				or state agency, in order to be considered eligible for cost sharing under this
				chapter.
(f) If a cost-share
				agreement is required, the best management practice shall be included as an
				eligible item on the cost-share agreement, signed by the governmental unit and
				a landowner, land operator or state agency in order to be considered eligible
				for cost sharing under this chapter.
(g) Best management practices funded under s.
				20.866(2) (te) or
				(tf), Stats., shall meet requirements for use
				of bond-sourced funding.
Note: This section governs what pollution sources are
				  eligible for cost sharing under ch. NR 153. It does not address requirements
				  for compliance with performance standards, nor does it address cost-share
				  funding as a precondition for compliance. Compliance requirements, including
				  when cost-share funding must be made available as a precondition of compliance,
				  are set forth in ss.
				  NR
				  151.09 and
				  151.095.