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Financial Assistance

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Grant programs for water resources improvements:

=====Planning Assistance to States===== (Section 22)

    • Water resource, watershed and ecosystem planning assistance ($500,000 per state)
    • Local sponsor match is 50%

=====Remedial Action Plans===== (Section 401)

    • General assistance for RAP development and implementation
    • Local sponsor match is 50%, but may include in-kind services

=====Expedited Reconnaissance Study===== (Section 905(b))

    • Conduct a reconnaissance study of local watershed problems to determine applicability to Corps programs ($100,000 per study)
    • Local sponsor match = none required

=====Beneficial Use of Dredged Material===== (Section 204)

    • Protect, restore and enhance aquatic habitat using dredged material from Federal navigation projects
    • Local sponsor match is 25% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations)

=====Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration===== (Section 206)

    • Plan, design and construct aquatic ecosystem restoration and protection projects ($5,000,000 per project)
    • Local sponsor match is 35% (with credits for lands, easements, rights-of-way, and relocations)

=====Restoration of Environmental Quality===== (Section 1135) ($5,000,000 per project)

    • Modify Corps structures or their operations to restore environmental quality. Restoration may be away from Corps project
    • Local sponsor match is 25% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations)

=====Flood Mitigation & Riverine Restoration===== (Section 212) ($30,000,000 per project)

    • Develop flood protection projects that restore natural functions of floodplain and enhance habitat
    • Local sponsor match is 35% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations)

=====Environmental Dredging===== (Section 312)

    • Provide for the removal of contaminated bottom sediments in waterways outside Federal navigation Channels
    • Local sponsor match is 35% (with credit for lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations)

=====Environmental Infrastructure===== (Various authorities )

    • Support development or restoration of environmental infrastructure, including water supply, wastewater, combined sewer overflows
    • Local sponsor match is (variable).

=====River Basin Studies===== (Section 729)

    • Study water resources needs of river basins and regions
    • Local sponsor match = none required.
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