Funding outline

• Title: Funding Outline
• IBCC - Doc Type: Program Planning, Budget & Contracts

Water Supply Reserve Account

Account Details
Amount : $10 Million a year for 4 years = $40 M

Timeframe : Can grant up to $10 M each year starting in FY06 - 07, but don’t have to. Unused
money stays in the account during the 4 year period. However, all money must be used by June
30, 2010 or it reverts back to the operational account of the severance tax trust fund .

Accessing : Can be grants or loans only for water activities approved by a roundtable (the
roundtable for the basin in which the proposed activity would occur). The IBCC and CWCB
will establish criteria and guidelines for allocating moneys from the account.

Criteria and Guidelines
Require ments from SB06 - 179
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Funding can only go to water activities approved by the roundtable for the basin in which
the proposed activity would occur .
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Allocations from this account must assist in meeting water supply needs identified in 37 -
75 - 104(2)(c) . This section relates to the roundtable’s basin - wide water needs assessment
and the proposed projects or methods to meet those needs.
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Allocations from this account must be cons istent with 37 - 75 - 102. This section is the
water rights protection clause o f HB05 - 177.
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Allocations from this account must facilitate both structural and nonstructural projects or
methods.

Eligible Water Activities – Eligible water activities include, but are not limited to:
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Competitive grants for environmental compliance and feasibility studies;
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Technical assistance regarding permitting, feasibility studies, and environmental
compliance;
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Studies or analyses of structural, nonstructural, consumptive, and nonconsumptive water
needs, projects, or activities; and
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Structural and nonstructural water projects or activities.

Next Steps
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Staff will pull together examples of criteria and guidelines from CWCB and other grant
programs.
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At May IBCC meeting (and May CWCB meeting?) brainstorm broad ideas for criteria
an d guidelines. Discuss in principal what the money should be for and how to structure
accessing and administering the account.
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Establish a working group of IBCC and CWCB members to draft criteria and guidelines
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Target final approval by both groups in l ate summer early fall