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Page 4 <br />• Expenditures such as annual operating expenses (i.e. salaries, field rental, umpire <br />fees, insurance, administrative expenses, membership dues, advertising and <br />promotions expenses, bank charges or audit expenses, etc. <br />Local Match: Most successful applications demonstrate a high ratio of confirmed matching <br />funds — a minimum of 50% is generally required for further consideration. <br />Water Resources <br />4. Urban Stormwater Remediation Cost -Share Program (Rice Creek Watershed District) <br />Purpose: Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) is making funds available to assist <br />counties, cities, townships, school districts, libraries, and other public and private entities <br />located within the RCWD to incorporate water quality improvements Best Management <br />Practices (BMPs) into redevelopment, roadway and storm sewer improvement projects. <br />Funding Availability: $50,000 ( +) <br />Deadline: March 2012 (dates not yet announced for 2012) <br />Eligible Projects: <br />• Water quality improvement portions of a project that are not part of a permit <br />requirement. (BMPs, pervious pavement, rain gardens, native restoration, etc.) <br />Local Match: 50% local match. <br />Other: WSB is currently working on a project in Hugo with water re -use (irrigation). <br />5. State Clean Water Partnership (CWP) and Federal Clean Water Act Section 319 <br />(Section 319) <br />Purpose: The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) provides financial and technical <br />assistance to local government and other water resource managers to address nonpoint- source <br />water pollution through the CWP and Section 319 programs. These funds are used for <br />diagnostic study or implementation projects that protect water bodies currently meeting <br />Minnesota's water quality standards. <br />Funding Availability:- $1,200,000 grant funds; $5 million loan funds (2011) <br />Deadline: December 2012 (dates not yet announced for 2012) <br />Eligible Projects: <br />• Resource investigation projects monitor, assess, and develop a diagnostic study on the <br />status of a water body, and also develop an implementation plan to address the needs <br />of the water body. Resource investigation projects are only eligible for grant funding. <br />• Implementation projects will implement activities, such as best management <br />practices, that are identified by a comprehensive assessment and planning process in <br />C:\Documenls and Settings kick.degardner.METRO- INET\Local Settings \Temporary Internet Files \ ConlenLOutlook \WOCQNI9M\MEMO- RecCompl Grat <br />