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 155.15 - Cost sharing for urban best management practices

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) ELIGIBLE COSTS.
(a) The department may provide cost sharing
				for the construction of urban best management practices to abate urban runoff.
				Design and construction services are included as eligible components of the
				construction or implementation of the urban 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
				  155.27(4).
(b) Urban best management practices are
				eligible for cost-sharing when used to:
1.
				Stabilize stream banks and shorelines in areas under subds. 2. to 7. as
				necessary to filter or infiltrate urban runoff or to reduce sediment pollution
				caused by stream bank erosion.
2.
				Abate urban runoff from an area with a population of 1,000 or more per square
				mile.
3. Abate urban runoff from
				commercial land uses such as strip commercial, office parks, shopping centers
				and downtown commercial.
4. Abate
				urban runoff from government, institutional, transportation and recreational
				land uses where the land uses contain source areas that generate above average
				urban runoff volumes, peak flows or pollutant loading.
5. Abate urban runoff from manufacturing and
				non-manufacturing industrial land uses owned or operated by a governmental unit
				or the Board of Regents, including sites requiring coverage under subch. II of
				ch. NR 216.
6. Abate urban runoff
				from industrial land uses that are not owned or operated by a municipality or
				the Board of Regents, but only those source areas within these industrial land
				uses that are not considered to be associated or contaminated by industrial
				activity, as defined under subch. II of ch. NR 216.
7. Abate urban runoff from areas
				geographically surrounded by areas described in subds. 2. to 6.
(c) Eligible costs include land
				acquisition, easements, storm sewer rerouting and removal of structures and
				associated flood management necessary to implement structural urban best
				management practices.
(d) An urban
				best management practice shall be included in ch. NR 154 or be available in
				accordance with the technical standards development and dissemination
				requirements of subch. V of ch. NR 151 to be considered eligible for cost
				sharing under this chapter.
(e) An
				urban best management practice shall be constructed in accordance with
				applicable technical standards and conditions identified in this chapter, ch.
				NR 154, in a document identified or developed by a state agency in accordance
				with subch. V of ch. NR 151 or a runoff management grant agreement in order to
				be considered eligible for cost sharing under this chapter.
Note:
Standards developed by the department are
				  available from the department at (608) 267-7694.
(f) An urban 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 the Board of
				Regents in order to be considered eligible for cost sharing under this
				chapter.
(g) If a cost-share
				agreement is required, the urban best management practice shall be included as
				an eligible item on the cost-share agreement, signed by the governmental unit
				and a landowner or land operator in order to be considered eligible for cost
				sharing under this chapter.
(h)
				Urban best management practice costs shall meet requirements for use of
				bond-sourced funding to be eligible for funding from the appropriation under s.
				20.866(2)
				(th), Stats.