Deadline: 31-Dec-22
The North Carolina Environmental Quality has announced the applications for its Water Resources Development Grant Program – State & Local Spring.
Purposes
- Stream Restoration: Restoration or stabilization of degraded streams & shorelines, aquatic bather removals, etc.
- Water Management: Stormwater control measures, drainage, flood control, hydrologic restoration, etc.
- Water-based Recreation Sites: Greenways, Trails, Boardwalks; Paddle Access, Fishing Docks/Piers; land acquisition for water-based recreation sites operated by local governments.
- Preliminary Feasibility or Engineering Study: towards implementation of one of the four eligible categories listed here.
- NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Stream Restoration Projects.
Funding Information
- Applicants are generally encouraged to not exceed $200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Units of Local government and local political subdivisions.
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Project Eligibility
- Projects planned and constructed by a federal agency with a local cost-share and projects without federal assistance are both eligible for state financial assistance provided that the applicant is a unit of local government.
- Non-eligible purposes include projects directly associated with maintenance, meeting an existing permit requirement, 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.
- Compensatory mitigation projects can be located directly adjacent to an eligible project for the purposes of achieving maximum ecological benefit.
- Should a compensatory mitigation project be conducted on land previously acquired using DWR grant funds the mitigation project sponsor shall reimburse either DWR or its grantee for the full value, plus appreciation, of the DWR investment in that portion of the land to be used for compensatory mitigation to ensure that DWR does not directly or indirectly subsidize the mitigation project.
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