Targeted Runoff Management Grant Programs

Targeted Runoff Management (TRM) grants are provided to control polluted runoff from both urban and rural sites. The grants are targeted at high-priority resource problems. Projects funded by TRM grants are site-specific and serve areas generally smaller in size than a subwatershed. The grant period is 2 years, with a possible 1-year extension. The maximum cost-share rate available to TRM grant recipients is 70 percent of eligible costs, with the total of state funding not to exceed $150,000.

How can TRM grant money be used?

TRM grants can fund the construction of rural and urban BMPs. TRM grants can also fund design of BMPs as part of a construction project. Most work may be reimbursed only when done during the grant period. There are two exceptions: land acquisition and design completed prior to the grant can be reimbursed, provided the design and parcel appraisal are approved by DNR regional staff and the construction project is selected for funding. Some examples of eligible BMPs include some cropland protection, detention ponds, livestock waste management practices, stream bank protection projects and wetland construction. These and other practices eligible for funding are listed in ch. NR 153 and s. NR 154.04, Wis. Adm. Code.

What projects are not funded by the TRM Grant Program?

• Projects to control pollution regulated under Wisconsin law as a point source. This includes activities to meet permit requirements for large livestock feeding operations regulated under ch. NR 243, Wis. Adm. Code, and municipal or industrial activities to meet permit requirements under ch. NR 216, Wis. Adm. Code.
• Construction site erosion control and post-construction structural BMPs for new development.
• Projects that are not water quality based (such as projects to solve drainage or flooding problems) or for dredging projects.
• Rural projects within Priority Watershed project areas, unless a showing is made that the Priority Watershed funding is inadequate to cover the entire TRM project.

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