Section NR 129.06 - Eligible and ineligible costs(1) ELIGIBLE COSTS. (a) The following project costs, whether incurred under contract or in the form of salaries and benefits, are eligible if they are allocatable to the mapping of eligible project areas and are not ineligible under sub. (2):1. Control survey, including monumentation and identification, both horizontally and vertically, of U.S. public land survey section and 1/4 section corners, centers of sections and correction corners within the eligible project area:4. Delineation of floodplain, floodway, and shoreland limits and annotation of other pertinent shoreland and floodplain data on the map sheets; and5. Verification of map accuracy.(b) Eligible project areas are limited to the following:1. Any 1/64 section (nominally 10 acres) of the U.S. public land survey or, where another survey system has been used, any equivalent area of up to 10 acres, which contains a floodplain or shoreland area. The eligible project area shall be defined on a 7 1/2 minute series U.S. geological survey quadrangle map. If U.S.G.S. maps are unavailable, any suitable scale map which depicts the U.S. public land survey may be used. Any 1/64 section divided by a corporate boundary shall be considered eligible if it contains a floodplain or shoreland area.2. Areas within the jurisdiction of the municipality, including proposed project areas outside of a city or village if the area is subject to:a. Annexation proceedings prior to the date of application;b. Extraterritorial zoning; orc. A county board resolution in which the county agrees to adopt, as part of the county's official floodplain or shoreland zoning ordinance, the maps developed for areas outside of the city or village as a result of the grant.(2) INELIGIBLE COSTS. (a) The following costs are ineligible: 1. Costs incurred prior to the state grant offer;2. Ordinary operating expenses and indirect costs incurred by the municipality;3. Costs for which there is no prior department approval of eligibility unless sub. (3) (c) applies;4. Costs for which payment has been or will be received under another state or federal cost sharing or grant program;5. Costs attributable to the correction of errors or deficiencies in the mapping due to the consultant's failure to comply with contract specifications; and6. The cost of a detailed floodplain study.(b) Where 2 foot, or less, contour interval mapping is available, the department may, in its discretion, declare that project area ineligible. In exercising this discretion, the department shall consider changes in land development conditions which may render existing mapping obsolete.(3) ALLOCATION OF COSTS. Total project costs may be allocated between eligible and ineligible project areas using one of the following methods: (a) Unit cost method. When this method is used, individual work items are prorated between eligible and ineligible project areas based on an equal cost per unit area. Note: The following is an example of the calculation of an individual work item using the unit cost method: If the cost of aerial photography is $500.00 per square mile (640 acres), and there are 320 acres of eligible project area, the eligible project cost would be $500.00 (320/640) = $250.00.
(b) Project cost method. When this method is used, eligible project costs are based on the total estimated cost of mapping only the eligible project area. Field work or data collection (e.g., ground control survey or aerial photography) outside the eligible project area may be eligible if it is necessary for the completion of the project. Projects using this method are required to submit the consultant's fee schedule showing the breakdown of eligible work items.(c) Original cost estimates based on either method may be increased, using the grant amendment procedure in s. NR 129.07(2), if it is determined upon completion of the final maps that the actual eligible project area is significantly larger than the area originally estimated to be eligible.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 129.06
Cr. Register, May, 1980, No. 293, eff. 6-1-80; am. Register, April, 1983, No. 328, eff. 5-1-83.