Section 263-1-003 - Qualifying Expenditures003.01.QUALIFYING PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS. Subject to the requirement of Subsection 003.02, a participating District may expend funds distributed pursuant to Section 002 of these rules for costs incurred by that District for any of the following programs and projects: (1) the purchase, installation, maintenance, and use of ground water or surface water sampling and testing equipment; (2) education and information programs related to water quality issues; (3) administration of ground water quality management areas; (4) purchase, installation, and maintenance of special monitoring wells and related equipment; (5) flow meters and other equipment required in ground water management areas; (6) source water protection programs and activities; (7) preparation and updating of ground water management plans; (8) implementation of water quality §best management§practices in both rural and urban areas, including programs that cost-share expenses of landowners and operators in installing or using such practices; (9) soil sampling and testing programs for soils in and below the crop root zone; (10) water quality research; (11) well decommissionings; (12) chemigation permitting and inspection programs; (13) investigations, because of water quality concerns, of potential replacement sources of water for public water suppliers; (14) animal waste management activities including research, treatment lagoon cost-sharing, feedlot waste effluent management, and inactive feedlot management; and (15) other water quality related programs and projects approved in advance by the Director. The Director has sole discretion to determine whether a District§s program qualifies for funding pursuant to this Subsection.003.02.Cost-Share Requirement. For each two dollars expended by the District from the funds distributed pursuant to Section 002 of these rules, the District must spend at least three dollars in funds derived from other non-state sources for the programs and projects identified in Subsection 003.01.003.03.Certification of Expenditures and Reimbursement of Funds. Funds distributed pursuant to Section 002 of these rules must be expended by the District in the fiscal year distributed. On or before August 31, the District must account for expenditure of the funds made available from the Fund in the previous fiscal year. In the event that all funds distributed in the previous fiscal year were not expended by June 30 of that fiscal year, or that any funds were expended for programs or projects that the Director determines were not qualified for funding, or that the District did not match the funds distributed in the proportion required by Subsection 003.02, the District shall reimburse the Department for the amount unexpended, improperly expended, or unmatched. All such reimbursed funds will be redeposited in the Fund for redistribution in accordance with Section 002 of these rules. No new distributions may be made to a District that has not made a reimbursement required by this Section. Enabling Legislation: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 2-15,123
263 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 003
Amended effective 7/28/2021