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• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2008
• Description: IWMD Section - Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods Grant Program - Adoption of Criteria Guidelines
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

3. Identified group(s) of agricultural users that are or may be willing to transfer a
portion of their water and identified entity(s), group(s) or area(s) where the
transferred water could or would be put to the new use and a description of the
new use.
4. The project must at a minimum conceptually describe the technical, institutional,
and legal elements of the water transfer. Grant monies may be used to address
one or more of these elements. If grant monies are not requested for all three
elements, the grant applicant must describe how the applicant has or intends to
address the elements, which are not included in the grant request, through other
efforts.
5. If grant monies are proposed for use for legal assistance then the use of those
funds shall be oriented toward advancing the knowledge of alternative agricultural
water transfer methods and techniques; not for preparation of a specific water
court case. The total requested funds for legal assistance shall not exceed 40
percent of the total grant request. In addition, grant monies proposed for use for
legal assistance must be used to collaboratively address issues and concerns
related to agricultural water transfer. Funds shall not be used to solely advance
the cause of the project proponents.
6. A minimum of a 10 percent cash match of total project cost (past expenditures
and "in kind" can not be counted toward the 10 percent match).
The following list includes examples of activities related to alternative agricultural
transfer methods/strategies that would qualify for funding.
Technical analysis of transferable consumptive use
Identification and examination of administrative and legal considerations or issues
related to alternative agricultural water transfers
Technical, logistical, and/or legal analysis/work to organize the institutional
framework necessary to implement an alternative transfer method(s)
Technical, logistical and/or legal analysis of water supply delivery options. This
may include conceptual solutions and the feasibility of implementing the delivery
of water to the new use.
Assist in addressing potential third party concerns
Note: Design and construction of infrastructure is not an eligible activity. Other funding
sources such as the Water Supply Reserve Account or the CWCB loan program would be
more appropriate sources of funding for these types of activities.
Evaluation Criteria
The following grant evaluation criteria will be used by the CWCB to evaluate and make
recommendations to fund, partially fund or not fund a grant application. The criteria are
aimed at advancing alternative transfer methods from the literature to actual on the
ground projects/programs that provide reliable water supply and sustain key elements of
the agricultural area from which the water is transferred. The applicant should fully
address and explain in detail in the application how, and the extent to which, the
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Final Criteria and Guidelines
January 22, 2008