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• Board Meeting Date: 11/18/2007
• Description: IWMD Section - Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods - Grant Program
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

environmental and cultural value that agriculture provides to our local communities and
the state as a whole. The grant program seeks to both allow the free marketing of water
supplies and to advance alternatives to traditional purchase and transfer of agricultural
water. Projects funded from this grant program should not simply be aimed at
facilitating a single locally-driven transfer but must also provide usable and
transferable information that will increase our understanding of how to successfully
design transfer programs that provide along-term reliable municipaUdomestic
water supply while sustaining meaningful production agriculture.
The grant program is available to applicants/projects in the Arkansas and South Platte
Basins. At minimum of 12 grants will be provided to each of these areas. The ultimate
number of grants funded will depend on the number and quality of applications received.
There will be two rounds of application submittal and grant awards per year. The first
deadline to submit grant applications will be March 31 st ,.r„<,°,..,~,°.. ~ n~ for consideration
at the May3-air-y 2008 CWCB Board meeting. The second round deadline for grant
submittal will be September 30th "~^r~~r~ for consideration at the November X2008
CWCB Board meeting. The CWCB Board will consider the grants and recommendations
by staff and will decide whether to fund, not fund or partially fund the grant requests. If
fluids are not exhausted following the first application round the same application
timeframes will apply for•"T,.<.°-.,~,°,. ~nnsz .,,,a March 2009 and September 2009.
Eli ig bilit~ equirements •
In order for a project to eligible to receive funding from the grant program it must meet
the requirements described in this section. If a project meets the eligibility requirements
it will then undergo further analysis to determine how well it meets the Evaluation
Criteria described in the following section.
In order to be eligible for funding, the project must include:
1. A completed application form.
2 A description of how if implemented it will protect pro~erty and water rights.
--1=3.Identified group(s) of agricultural users that are willing to transfer a portion of
their water and identified group(s) or area(s) where the transferred water would be
put to the new use.
~4.The project must at a minimum conceptually describe *'~°r°~~~'~'<~ ^~'ar°c° the
technical, institutional, and legal elements of the water ~gl~ts transfer. Grant
monies may be used to address one or more of these elements. If grant monies
are not requested noed~-for all three elements the grant applicant must describe
how they have or intend to a~~st~te *~tm=y'~`o'° *~=cab'.-'-;' addresse-d
the elements, which are not included in the grant request, through other efforts.
~S.Grant monies that are proposed for use for legal assistance shall be oriented
toward advancing the knowledge of alternative aglricultural water transfer
methods and techniques• not for preparation of a specific water court case. The
total requested funds for legal assistance shall not exceed X40 percent of the total
grant request. In addition, grant monies proposed for use for legal assistance
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