Deadline: 31-Dec-22
The North Carolina Environmental Quality is seeking applications for its NRCS-EQIP Stream Restoration Projects.
Funding Information
- Project Cost: $400,000
- Federal NRCS-EQIP Estimate: $200,000
- Nonfederal Cost Share: $200,000
- DEQ Maximum Grant Award: $100,000
- DEQ 90% Reimbursement: $90,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Units of local government, local political subdivisions, and non-governmental organizations (NGO, only as co-applicants).
- An Applicant is the unit of local government; a Co-Applicant is an NGO partnering with a local government.
- A Grantee is the local government applicant who has been awarded grant finding; A Co-Grantee is an NGO partnering with a Grantee.
- NGO's serving as Co-Applicants shall include the local government contact on correspondence associated with application submittals, contractual matters, reimbursement requests and grant close out activities.
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Project Eligibility
- Stream restoration projects approved for NRCS-EQIP funding by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are eligible for state financial assistance.
- A single project shall consist of all the landowners and other participants under a project design contract approved by the Natural Resource Conservation Service under the EQIP program along a contiguous stretch of stream.
- Eligible stream practices for DWR funding consideration are those listed in the most recent version of the EQJP/RCPP Guidelines for Natural Stream Channel Work.
- Non-eligible purposes are considered any practices not listed in this EQIP guidance document.
- Other non-eligible purposes include projects directly associated with meeting an existing permit requirement (i.e., NPDES Phase I and Phase II Stormwater), generating nutrient credits, environmental regulatory enforcement actions and small watershed projects of the NRCS (reviewed by the N.C. Soil and Water Conservation Commission).
- Compensatory mitigation projects and the generation of compensatory mitigation credits for impacts to aquatic resources per the Federal Mitigation Rule are non-eligible purposes.
- However, compensatory mitigation projects can be located directly adjacent to an eligible project for the purposes of achieving maximum ecological benefit.
- Session Law 2020-18, Section 12.(a) prohibits Applicants from applying for funding to this grant program if they also receive funding from the North Carolina Land and Water Fund, formerly known as the Clean Water Management Trust Fund.
Criteria
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The following criteria will be used to approve, approve in part, or disapprove grant applications
- The economic, social, and environmental benefits to be provided by the projects;
- Regional benefits of projects to an area greater than the area under the jurisdiction of the local sponsoring entity;
- The financial resources of the local sponsoring entity;
- The environmental impact of the project;
- Any direct benefit to State-owned lands and properties.
For more information, visit North Carolina Environmental Quality.
For more information, visit https://deq.nc.gov/about/divisions/water-resources/water-resources-grants/water-resources-development-grant-program