NR 155.12(29) (29) “Source area” means a component of urban land use including rooftops, sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, storage areas, streets and lawns from which urban runoff pollutants are generated during periods of snow melt and rainfall runoff.

NR 155.12(30) (30) “Structural urban best management practices” means detention basins, wet basins, infiltration basins and trenches and wetland basins.

NR 155.12(31) (31) “Urban area” means an area with a population density of 1,000 or more per square mile, or an area of industrial or commercial land uses, or an area that is surrounded by an area described in this definition.

NR 155.12(32) (32) “Urban best management practice” means structural urban best management practices and other source area measures, transport system and end-of-pipe measures designed to control storm water runoff rates, volumes and discharge quality.

NR 155.12(33) (33) “Urban runoff” means runoff from rainfall or snow melt that is either a point source discharge as defined under s. 283.01 (12), Stats., or a nonpoint source discharge as defined under s. 281.65 (2) (b), Stats.

NR 155.12(34) (34) “Watershed” means a region or area bounded peripherally by a divide and draining ultimately to a water of the state.

NR 155.12(35) (35) “Wetland” or “wetlands” has the meaning specified under s. 23.32 (1), Stats.

NR 155.12(36) (36) “WPDES” means Wisconsin pollutant discharge elimination system.

NR 155.12 History History: CR 00-025: cr. Register September 2002 No. 561, eff. 10-1-02; CR 09-112: am. (7) Register December 2010 No. 660, eff. 1-1-11; 2015 Wis. Act 330 s. 20: am. (1), (2), (9), (10), (14), (28) Register April 2016 No. 724, eff. 5-1-16.

NR 155.13 NR 155.13 Eligible applicants.

NR 155.13(1) (1) A governmental unit or a federally recognized tribal governing body is eligible to apply for and receive a runoff management grant and local assistance grant administered under this chapter if at least one of the following conditions is met:

NR 155.13(1)(a) (a) The grant application is for a local governmental unit having jurisdiction over the project area.

NR 155.13(1)(b) (b) The grant application is for a local governmental unit not having jurisdiction over the project area if both of the following conditions are met:

NR 155.13(1)(b)1. 1. The local governmental unit is required to control storm water discharges under s. 283.33, Stats.

NR 155.13(1)(b)2. 2. Inter-governmental agreements are in place, or will be put in place, as needed to assure urban best management practices included on the grant are installed and maintained.

NR 155.13(2) (2) The Board of Regents is eligible to apply for and receive a runoff management grant and a local assistance grant administered under this chapter if all of the following conditions are met:

NR 155.13(2)(a) (a) The grant is for practices, techniques or measures to control stormwater discharges on a University of Wisconsin System campus, including the acquisition of property or easements as required to install structural urban best management practices.

NR 155.13(2)(b) (b) The university of Wisconsin campus where the project is located is in a municipality required to obtain a permit under s. 283.33, Stats.

NR 155.13(2)(c) (c) The municipality where the campus is located meets at least one of the following:

NR 155.13(2)(c)1. 1. It is located in a priority watershed as defined in s. 281.65 (2) (c), Stats.

NR 155.13(2)(c)2. 2. It is located in a priority lake area as defined in s. 281.65 (2) (bs), Stats.

NR 155.13(2)(c)3. 3. It is located in an area identified as an area of concern by the international joint commission as defined in s. 281.35 (1) (h), Stats., under the great lakes water quality agreement.

NR 155.13 Note Note: A landowner or land operator that is not a governmental unit or the Board of Regents may not apply directly to the department for a runoff management or local assistance grant. However, a landowner or land operator may enter into a cost-share agreement with a governmental unit to receive grant funds awarded by the department to the governmental unit.

NR 155.13 History History: CR 00-025: cr. Register September 2002 No. 561, eff. 10-1-02; CR 09-112: am (1) (intro.) Register December 2010 No. 660, eff. 1-1-11; 2015 Wis. Act 330 s. 20: am. (2) (intro.), (a) Register April 2016 No. 724, eff. 5-1-16.

NR 155.14 NR 155.14 Eligible projects.

NR 155.14(1) (1) An eligible project is that specified in the scope of a runoff management grant agreement developed in accordance with s. NR 155.21 or in the scope of a local assistance grant agreement developed in accordance with s. NR 155.26. A project scope shall have a geographic component and a time component.

NR 155.14(1)(a) (a) The geographic component of the project scope may range from controlling pollution from a single source on a property to controlling multiple pollution sources within a specified drainage area.

NR 155.14(1)(b) (b) The time component of the project scope may last up to 2 years. The department may grant an extension of up to one year in accordance with s. NR 155.21 (2). Multiple projects can be conducted consecutively or simultaneously in the same project area.

NR 155.14(2) (2) The department may provide a runoff management grant under s. NR 155.21 for a project to design and install urban best management practices, stream bank stabilization projects or shoreline stabilization projects necessary to control pollution. The department may provide a runoff management grant only if all of the following apply: