323.61(3)(a)(a) Emergency planning grants shall not exceed the sum of the following amounts:
323.61(3)(a)1.1. The costs of each new facility plan completed by the committee and approved by the division in the period covered by the grant.
323.61(3)(a)2.2. All costs incurred by the committee in the period covered by the grant related to subs. (2) (b) to (dm) and (2m).
323.61(3)(a)3.3. The portion of a previous year’s costs that was approved by the division but not paid because of insufficient funds.
323.61(3)(b)(b) The division shall reduce the grant amount calculated under par. (a) by the amount of any other gifts or grants received by the committee in the period covered by the grant for costs incurred by the committee related to sub. (2).
323.61(3)(c)(c) Notwithstanding sub. (2), the division shall deny that portion of a grant calculated under par. (a) 2. if the division determines that the committee has failed to meet grant obligations, including the development, review, exercise or implementation of local emergency response plans as required under s. 323.60 or the federal act.
323.61(3)(e)(e) Annually, the division shall establish a formula to determine the amount of emergency planning grant funds available to each county.
323.61(4)(4)Payment of grants. Annually, the division shall review all applications received under this section and make grants to committees from the appropriations under s. 20.465 (3) (jm) and (r). If insufficient funds are available to pay all approved grants, the division shall prorate the available funds among the eligible applicants in proportion to the approved grant amounts. A prorated payment shall be deemed full payment of the grant.
323.61(5)(5)Payment in advance.
323.61(5)(a)(a) The division may pay a portion of a grant before the end of the period covered by the grant if a committee requests the advance payment and if the division determines that the necessary funds are available and that the advance payment will not result in insufficient funds to pay other grants.
323.61(5)(b)(b) The division may pay an amount up to 50 percent of anticipated eligible costs covered by a grant up to 12 months before the end of the period covered by the grant. The division may pay an additional amount up to 25 percent of anticipated eligible costs up to 6 months before the end of the period covered by the grant. The division shall determine anticipated eligible costs from a budget submitted by the committee at the time that the committee requests payment in advance.
323.61(5)(c)(c) If a committee receives advance payments under this subsection which exceed the total grant amount calculated under sub. (3), the division shall subtract the amount of the overpayment from the amount of a grant paid to that committee in the next year that the committee receives a grant.
323.61 HistoryHistory: 1987 a. 342; 1989 a. 31, 115; 1991 a. 104; 1993 a. 16; 1995 a. 13, 227; 1997 a. 27; 2001 a. 16; 2009 a. 42 ss. 207 to 213; Stats. 2009 s. 323.61.
323.62323.62Mobile field force grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.465 (3) (dm), the division may award grants to Wisconsin law enforcement agencies, as defined in s. 165.77 (1) (c), to fund crowd-control training and equipment used for crowd control.
323.62 HistoryHistory: 2017 a. 59.
323.63323.63Pre-disaster flood resilience grant program.
323.63(1)(1)Definitions. In this section:
323.63(1)(a)(a) “Assessment grant” means a grant awarded under sub. (3).
323.63(1)(b)(b) “Implementation grant” means a grant awarded under sub. (4).
323.63(1)(c)(c) “Local governmental unit” means any city, village, town, county, regional planning commission, or federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state.
323.63(1)(d)(d) “Program” means the pre-disaster flood resilience grant program described in sub. (2) (a).
323.63(2)(2)Creation and administration.
323.63(2)(a)(a) The division shall create and administer a pre-disaster flood resilience grant program to provide grants to applicants for the purpose of identifying flood vulnerabilities, identifying options to improve flood resiliency, and restoring hydrology in order to reduce flood risk and damages in flood-prone communities.
323.63(2)(b)(b) The program shall provide grants as described in subs. (3) and (4), and shall establish an annual grant cycle.
323.63(2)(c)(c) In each fiscal biennium, for each dollar the program awards for an assessment grant under sub. (3), the program may award no more than 67 percent of a dollar for an implementation grant under sub. (4).
323.63(3)(3)Assessment grants.
323.63(3)(a)(a) Assessment grants awarded under this subsection shall support applicants’ generation and gathering of information on vulnerabilities and identification of flood resilience priorities on a watershed, catchment, or stream reach-scale through one or more of the following activities:
323.63(3)(a)1.1. Assessments aimed at understanding flood flows and erosion hazards and vulnerabilities and identifying opportunities to increase flood resilience, including opportunities to restore wetland, stream, and floodplain hydrology.
323.63(3)(a)2.2. Development of culvert inventories using the Great Lakes Stream Crossing Inventory, or using another road-stream crossing inventory method that considers structural risk factors, aquatic organism passage, and upstream hydrologic conditions, and that is at least as effective as the Great Lakes Stream Crossing Inventory.