281.65(4e)(a)(a) A governmental unit may request funding under this subsection for a project to implement best management practices for animal waste management at an animal feeding operation for which the department has issued a notice of discharge under ch. 283 or a notice of intent to issue a notice of discharge.

281.65(4e)(bm) (bm) The department may provide a cost-sharing grant under this subsection directly to a landowner, or to an operator of an animal feeding operation, for a project to implement best management practices for animal waste management at an animal feeding operation for which the department has issued a notice of discharge under ch. 283 or a notice of intent to issue a notice of discharge if the department determines that providing funding under this subsection is necessary to protect the waters of the state.

281.65(4g) (4g) The department may contract with any person from the appropriation account under s. 20.370 (4) (at) for services to administer or implement this section, including information and education and training services. The department shall allocate $500,000 in each fiscal year from the appropriation account under s. 20.370 (4) (at) for contracts for educational and technical assistance related to the program under this section provided by the University of Wisconsin-Extension.

281.65(4m)(a)(a) Any governmental unit or regional planning commission designated by the department under sub. (4) (h) shall prepare an inventory of nonpoint source water pollution in the watershed which is the subject of the plan under sub. (4) (g) and submit the inventory to the department for incorporation into the plan.

281.65(4m)(b)3. 3. The identification of critical surface water and groundwater protection management areas within that area and the agricultural and nonagricultural best management practices to be applied to that area.

281.65(4m)(b)7. 7. A comprehensive management strategy to manage agricultural and nonagricultural nonpoint source water pollution affecting surface water or groundwater, including animal waste, fertilizer, pesticides, storm water, construction site erosion and other nonpoint sources of water pollution.

281.65(4m)(c) (c) The department shall submit a copy of any plan it completes under this subsection to any county located in or containing any watershed which is a subject of the plan and to the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection. The department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection shall review the plan and notify the department of natural resources of its comments on the plan. A county receiving a plan under this subsection shall review the plan, approve or disapprove the plan and notify the department of natural resources of its action on the plan.

281.65(4m)(d) (d) After the department considers the comments of the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection on a plan under par. (c) and receives approval of the plan by every county to which it was sent and by the land and water conservation board, the department shall designate the plan to be an element of the appropriate areawide water quality management plan under P.L. 92-500, section 208.

281.65(5) (5) The department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection shall:

281.65(5)(b) (b) Prepare sections of the priority watershed or priority lake plan relating to farm-specific implementation schedules, requirements under s. 281.16 (3), animal waste management and selection of agriculturally related best management practices and submit those sections to the department for inclusion under sub. (4m) (b). The best management practices shall be cost-effective best management practices, as specified under sub. (4) (e), except in situations in which the use of a cost-effective best management practice will not contribute to water quality improvement or will cause a water body to continue to be impaired as identified to the federal environmental protection agency under 33 USC 1313 (d) (1) (A).

281.65(5)(d) (d) Develop a grant disbursement and project management schedule for agriculturally related best management practices to be included in a plan established under sub. (4) (g) and identify recommendations for implementing activities or projects under ss. 92.10 and 281.16 (3).

281.65(5m) (5m) Upon completion of plans by the department under sub. (4) (g), the governmental unit or regional planning commission under sub. (4m) and the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection under sub. (5), and upon receiving the approval of the land and water conservation board, the department shall prepare and approve the final plan for a priority watershed or priority lake.

281.65(5q)(a)(a) Notwithstanding sub. (5s), neither the department nor the land and water conservation board may extend funding under this section for a priority watershed or priority lake project beyond the funding termination date that was in effect for the priority watershed or priority lake project on January 1, 2001, except as provided in par. (b).

281.65(5q)(b) (b) The department may authorize funding to be provided to a landowner under a priority watershed or priority lake project for up to one year after the funding termination date under par. (a) for that project if the department determines that a delay in implementation of best management practices by the landowner was caused by conditions beyond the control of the landowner.

281.65(5s) (5s) The department may make modifications, including designating additional sites as critical sites, in a priority watershed or priority lake plan with the approval of every county to which the department sent the original plan under sub. (4m) (c) and of the land and water conservation board. If the owner or operator of a site prevails in a final review under sub. (7) or the site is not designated as a critical site in the original plan under sub. (5m) and the pollution is from an agricultural source and is not caused by animal waste, the department may not make a modification designating the site as a critical site unless the designation is based on a substantial increase in pollution from the site, on information about pollution from the site that was not available when the plan was prepared or on a substantial change to the criteria for designating a site as a critical site. This subsection applies to a priority watershed or priority lake plan completed before, on or after August 12, 1993.