Lewis And Clark Rural Water System (15.520)
Program
15.520 Lewis And Clark Rural Water System
Federal Agency
Agency: Department of the Interior
Office: Bureau of Reclamation
Authorization
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5; Fiscal Year 2000, Department of Defense Supplemental Appropriations Act, Division B, Chapter 3, Title IV, Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, Public Law 106-246.
Program Number
15.520
Last Known Status
Active
Objectives
To provide safe and adequate municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, mitigation of wetland areas and water conservation for the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System member entities located in southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa.
For Recovery Act funded projects and in addition to the program objectives stated above, Section 3 of the Act states the following objectives: (1) To preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery; (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession; (3) To provide investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological advances in science and health; (4) To invest in transportation, environmental protection and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits; and (5) To stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
Types of Assistance
Cooperative Agreements
Uses and Use Restrictions
This project is for the planning and construction of a bulk water supply system to provide municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, mitigation of wetland areas and water conservation for the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System member entities located in southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota member entities located in southeastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa. Congress has specifically authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to administer this project in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa. At the present time, no new project awards are being made under this authority. Funding is only available for continuation of existing agreements.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicant Eligibility
The Lewis and Clark Rural Water Supply System, Inc., and its member entities (rural water systems or municipalities that meet the Lewis and Clark Rural Water Supply System, Inc., requirements for membership).
Beneficiary Eligibility
The communities and five rural water systems in Lake, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner, Lincoln, Clay, and Union Counties, in southeastern South Dakota; Rock and Nobles Counties, in Southwestern Minnesota; and Lyon, Sioux, Osceola, O'Brien Dickinson, and Clay Counties, in northwestern Iowa.
Credentials/Documentation
The project requires submission of a final engineering report and a plan for water conservation and mitigation plans for fish and wildlife losses in accordance with Section 4104 of the Act. OMB Circular No. A-87 applies to this program.
Application and Award Process
Preapplication Coordination
Preapplication coordination is required. An environmental impact statement is required for this program. An environmental impact assessment is required for this program. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.
Application Procedure
OMB Circular No. A-102 applies to this program. OMB Circular No. A-110 applies to this program. Amendments to incorporate annual work plans and budgets are negotiated annually. The recipient must submit all applicable SF-424 Application for Federal Assistance forms, along with (1) Detailed written technical proposals including background data regarding the applicants, technical approaches proposed to accomplish the work, scopes of work that separate the work into major tasks, types of personnel implementing the proposals, experience in performing these types of work, timelines, the levels of cooperation with other parties involved in the proposals, and other information that may be useful for proposal evaluation; and (2) Detailed project cost proposals, including budgets with estimated project costs, including salaries and wages, fringe benefits, travel, equipment, supplies, contracts, and indirect costs, and the values of any in-kind contributions of goods and services.
Award Procedure
Once the parties agree with their respective annual scopes of work and budgets, the Bureau of Reclamation's Great Plains Region finalizes the amendments.
Deadlines
Not Applicable.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time
Not Applicable.
Appeals
Not Applicable.
Renewals
Funding is available until all currently appropriated funds have been expended for this program. Additional funding for the program is at the discretion of Congress. Any request for a time extension must be in writing in accordance with the provisions stated in the agreement.
Assistance Considerations
Formula and Matching Requirements
Statutory formulas are not applicable to this program.
Matching Requirements: The Federal share of the project is 80 percent; except that Federal funds for the City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, shall be 50 percent of the incremental cost to the city of participation in the project. (Public Law 106-246, Section 4108).
MOE requirements are not applicable to this program.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance
As of September 30, 2004, the federal appropriation ceiling as prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation was $332,355,000 and the projected cost ceiling from all funding sources was $423,198,000. Funds are to be available until expended. See the following for information on how assistance is awarded/released: Information not available.
Post Assistance Requirements
Reports
Draft and final technical; progress reports (quarterly); annual report; and reports on significant developments (as necessary). Recovery Act recipients are required to submit quarterly program reports to www.FederalReporting.gov. Cash reports are not applicable. Progress reports are not applicable. Quarterly and final Federal Financial Report, SF 425. Performance monitoring is not applicable.
Audits
In accordance with the provisions of OMB Circular No. A-133 (Revised, June 27, 2003), "Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations," nonfederal entities that expend financial assistance of $500,000 or more in Federal awards will have a single or a program-specific audit conducted for that year. Nonfederal entities that expend less than $500,000 a year in Federal awards are exempt from Federal audit requirements for that year, except as noted in Circular No. A-133.
Records
State, local and Indian Tribal governments shall maintain project records in accordance with 43 CFR 12.82. All other recipients shall maintain project records in accordance with 43 CFR 12.953.
Program Accomplishments
Fiscal Year 2008: Required technical and environmental reports for the construction of the municipal, rural, industrial systems; and construction of the systems. Fiscal Year 2009: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2010: No Current Data Available
Financial Information
Account Identification
14-0680-0-1-301; 14-0681-0-1-301 - Recovery Act.
Obligations
(Cooperative Agreements) FY 08 $0; FY 09 est $56,200,000; FY 10 est $0. (Cooperative Agreements) FY 08 $21,486,000; FY 09 est $27,000,000; FY 10 est $25,000,000
Range and Average of Financial Assistance
Range is $50,000 to $60,000,000; Average $43,228,666.
Regulations, Guidelines and Literature
43 CFR 12, http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html#page1; OMB Circulars, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/grants_circulars.html; these documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation office listed below.
Related Programs
Not Applicable.
Information Contacts
Regional or Local Office
See Regional Agency Offices. Dakotas Area Office: Mr. Denny Breitzman, Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Address: P.O. Box 1017, Bismarck, ND 58501, Telephone: (701) 250-4242, E-mail: dbreitzman@gp.usbr.gov .
Headquarters Office
Terry Zontek Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains Regional Office, P.O. Box 36900, 316 North 26th Street, Billings, Montana 59101-6900 Email: tzontek@usbr.gov Phone: (406)247-7606
Web Site Address
Examples of Funded Projects
Fiscal Year 2008: Continuing construction of the Lewis and Clark water supply system. Fiscal Year 2009: No Current Data Available Fiscal Year 2010: No Current Data Available
Criteria for Selecting Proposals
The scope of work must address and be responsive to the authorizing legislation, the final engineering report and the appropriation ceiling.
For Recovery Act projects: The purposes are among others, to quickly and prudently commence activities that preserve and create jobs and to promote economic recovery, and to invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. To meet these purposes, Reclamation will allocate funds based on the criteria set forth in the Recovery Act and the accompanying conference report, and will target activities that quickly infuse money into the economy.
