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<br />I- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Office ofthe Commissioner <br />Washington, DC <br /> <br />RECLAMATION <br /> <br />Managing Water in the West <br /> <br />News Release <br /> <br />Media Contact: Trudy Harlow 202-513-0574 <br />tharlow(ci)usbr.oov <br />Program Contact:: Eileen Salenik 202-513-0607 <br />esalenik(ci)usbr.oov <br /> <br />For Release: February 9, 2004 <br /> <br />RFP for Water 2025 Challenge Grant Program is Now <br />Available Online <br /> <br />WASHINGTON, DC - The Request for Proposals for the Water 2025 Challenge Grant Program for <br />fiscal Year 2004 is now available online at www.doi.gov/water2025. <br /> <br />The $4 million Challenge Grant Program is seeking proposals from irrigation and water districts that <br />want to leverage their money and resources in partnership with Reclamation, to make more efficient use of <br />existing water supplies through water conservation, efficiency and water market projects. The program will <br />focus on achieving the outcomes identified in Interior Secretary Gale Norton's Water 2025: Preventing Crises <br />. and Conflict in the West, particularly in water conservation and efficiency, water markets, and collaboration, <br />with an emphasis on projects that can be completed within 24 months and that reduce future water conflicts. <br /> <br />"The goal of Water 2025 -- and these challenge grants -- is to support realistic, cooperative approaches <br />and tools that have the most likelihood of successfully addressing water challenges in basins where crisis and <br />conflict are preventable," Secretary Norton said. "Water 2025 is focused on local solutions in partnership with <br />local water users. It is not a big federal program." <br /> <br />The deadline for submitting proposals is April 8, 2004. Selection and award will be in Mayor June with <br />implementation beginning in early August of this year. <br /> <br />Examples of proposals Reclamation is seeking include development of water accounts that would <br />provide a way to market water for other existing needs, including agriculture; retrofitting and modemizing <br />existing facilities to achieve better water management through use of new technology; and canal lining or <br />construction of new measurement devices that will allow for more accurate measurement and accounting, <br />leading to increased efficiency. <br /> <br />Eligible entities include irrigation and/or water districts legally created and organized under state law, <br />within the states identified in the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902, as amended and supplemented. <br />Specifically, these states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New <br />Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. <br /> <br />-more- <br /> <br />.~) <br /> <br />..............--.~ <br /> <br />u. S. Department of the Interior <br />Bureau of Reclamation <br />