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

http://www.lcrws.org/.

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.