Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 7.03

Current through October 28, 2024

Section NR 7.03 - Definitions

The following definitions are applicable to terms used in this chapter.

(1) "Approval" means the signing by the secretary or secretary's designee of a project agreement that encumbers a specified amount of state aid funds for a specific purpose.

(2) "Commission" means the Wisconsin waterways commission appointed by the governor under s. 15.345, Stats.

(3) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of natural resources.

(3a) "Donations" means the cash or non-cash contributions of materials, equipment, services or labor provided by a third party to the sponsor that are reasonable and necessary for carrying out the project and meet the same test of eligibility as any other cost item.

(4) "Feasibility study" means an investigation of the environmental, economic and engineering aspects of a safe recreational boating facility project to determine if the project may be successfully carried out.

(5) "Force account" means the forces and resources of a sponsor including the use of the sponsor's own employees and equipment for construction, construction related activities (including architectural or engineering services), repair or improvement to a facility.

(6) "Fringe benefits" means employers' contributions or expenses for social security, employee's life and health insurance plans, unemployment insurance coverage, worker's compensation insurance, pension retirement plans and employee benefits in the form of regular compensation and sick, court or military leave.

(7) "Governmental unit" means the department, a city, village, town, county, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district organized under ch. 33, Stats., or the Fox river management commission.

(8) "Indirect costs" means those costs not directly assignable to a project. Such costs are generally administrative in nature, are incurred for a common or joint purpose, or are not readily assignable to a project.

Note: Examples of indirect costs include central office heat, light, utilities, administrative salaries, secretarial services, postage, etc., which are not supported by time reports or other documentation which links the expenditure to a particular project.

(8a) "In-kind contributions" means the non-cash contributions of materials, equipment, services or labor provided by the sponsor that are reasonable and necessary for carrying out the project and meet the same test of eligibility as any other cost item.

(9) "Project" means a specific recreational boating facility development, dredging of channels of waterways for recreational boating purposes, acquisition of capital equipment necessary to cut and remove aquatic plants, and acquisition of aids to navigation and regulatory markers.

(10) "Project agreement" means a contract between the sponsor and department setting forth the obligations with regard to a portion or all of a specific project.

(11) "Project period" means the period of time specified in the project agreement during which all work shall be completed or all items acquired.

(12) "Project priority list" means a ranking by the commission of various safe recreational boating facility projects in the order of their scheduled receipt of funds.

(13) "Qualified lake association" has the meaning given in s. 30.92(1) (br), Stats.

(14) "Safe recreational boating facilities" means places where the public has access to the water by means of breakwaters and other similar physical structures, either naturally or artificially constructed, which provide safety and convenience for operators of recreational watercraft. "Recreational boating facilities" also includes locks and facilities which provide access between waterways for operators of recreational watercraft. Safe recreational boating facilities on the Great Lakes are commonly referred to as harbors of refuge. Safe recreational boating facilities on inland waters are commonly referred to as public accesses or launching ramps.

(15) "Secretary" means the secretary of the department.

(16) "Sponsor" means a governmental unit or qualified lake association receiving assistance under this chapter.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 7.03

Cr. Register, April 1979, No. 280, eff. 5-1-79; r. (3), renum. (1), (2), (4) to (7) to be (2), (3), (5), (8), (9) and (1) and am. (9), cr. (4), (6), (7) and (10), Register, December, 1986, No. 372, eff. 1-1-87; renum. (1) to (10) to be (2) to (4), (7), (9) to (12), (14) and (15) and am. (9) and (11), cr. (1), (5), (6), (8), (13) and (16), Register, January, 1993, No. 445, eff. 2-1-93; CR 00-112: cr. (3a) and (8a), Register November 2001 No. 551, eff. 12-1-01.