Kahle Jennings, Ecology
Jan. 2000 Edition of Drops of Water
By the time this edition of Drops of Water reaches you the Salmon Recovery Funding Board will have completed making its decisions on how the Early 2000 Application Cycle for salmon recovery project funds will be run.
While we don't know the exact details at the time this is being written, it is very likely that the following elements will be included:
If a Lead Entity for a specific area has been approved by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, all potential projects from that area must submit their applications through their Lead Entity. (In the Chehalis River/Grays Harbor area the Chehalis Basin Partnership has designated Grays Harbor County to act in its behalf as the Lead Entity.)
Eligible applicants include local government (counties, cities/towns, conservation districts), state agencies, Tribes, non-profit organizations, and private landowners. Private landowners are eligible only if the project occurs on their land and appropriate assurances are provided to protect the state's investments for the long term.
Eligible projects for this cycle include: Habitat acquisition, installation of devices to prevent fish from entering water diversion structures, removing in-stream blockages to fish passage, enhancement of in-stream habitat, improving riparian habitat, improving upland habitat that directly affect the quantity of water and/or the quality of water important to fish.
Key dates for this application period are:
December 1999 Lead Entities solicit project from eligible applicants.
January 14, 2000 Project applications are due to the Lead Entity.
January 31, 2000 Lead entity completes an evaluation of project applications and submits the evaluation criteria and a prioritized list of projects (and supporting documents) to the Salmon Recovery Funding Board.
March 2000 Salmon Recovery Funding Board makes funding decisions.
One very important element of this grant application process is that the Salmon Recovery Funding Board will be paying close attention to the methods used by the Lead Entity to evaluate and prioritize the individual projects. The methods must be based on the best information available that has been developed using widely accepted scientific processes. If the process used by the Lead Entity to establish the prioritized list of projects does not satisfy this requirement then the entire list will most likely be rejected and the funding opportunity available during this application period will be lost.
The Chehalis Basin Partnership has elected to use the application forms and rating criteria adopted by the Salmon Recovery Funding Board. The approved application forms and rating criteria should be available soon after December 3rd. Applications are due to the Lead Entity (Grays Harbor County) by 5:00 p.m. on January 14, 2000. The Partnership realizes that this is not a lot of time to prepare applications, however, this schedule leaves the Lead Entity only two weeks to complete project evaluation and prepare a prioritized list before the January 31 deadline.
For addition information on this Early 2000 Salmon Recovery Funding opportunity or to find out how to obtain a project application form, you may contact one of the following individuals:
Lee Hansmann, Grays Harbor County, (360) 249-4222
Kahle Jennings, Department of Ecology, (360) 407-6310
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