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 153.28 - 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 best management practices identified in runoff
				management grant agreements described in s.
				NR
				153.21.
(b) Governmental units and state agencies
				shall comply with the following procedures when requesting reimbursement:
1. Reimbursement requests shall be submitted
				on forms provided by the department. When reimbursement is for a best
				management practice installed to meet a performance standard or prohibition
				contained in subchapter II of ch. NR 151, a statement of ch. NR 151 compliance
				shall be provided to the landowner or operator and a copy shall be attached to
				the reimbursement request.
Note: Forms can be obtained from the department's Bureau of
				  Watershed Management or the department's Bureau of Community Fiscal Assistance,
				  101 S. Webster St., PO Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707-7921.
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 will 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 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 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 best management practice. A grantee may
				submit a request for reimbursement of up-front payments made to a cost-share
				recipient for multi-year cropping practices, including high residue management,
				cropland protection cover, nutrient management, and pesticide management,
				without prior approval from the department provided that the cost-share
				recipient completes the first full year of implementation in accordance with
				program requirements.
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.
3. Progress
				reports required by the department shall accompany each reimbursement request.
				A final report shall be submitted on forms provided by the department as part
				of 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. Reimbursement may not be made in any
				amount that results in the combined state share under s.
				92.14,
				Stats., and this chapter exceeding the cost share rate required under s.
				281.16(3)
				(e) or (4), Stats.
6. The department, in the scope of the grant
				agreement or grant amendment, may further specify eligible costs, reimbursement
				amounts and reimbursement filing deadlines.
7. Failure to submit reports on schedule may
				result in withholding of grant payments.
8. The department shall deny reimbursements
				requested for installed practices which are not included in a cost-share
				agreement ratified by the department, or enumerated as a grantee-installed
				practice on the grant agreement or grant amendment, 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.