Grant Workshop

The California Department of Water Resources and State Water Board
will be holding a workshop on the IRWM Planning Grant Application
process on September 2, 2010 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the CalEPA
Building, 1001 I Street, Byron Sher Auditorium, Sacramento, CA 95814.

This workshop will be webcast and can be accessed at
http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/ You can email questions or
comments
during the webcast to DWR_IRWM@water.ca.gov

The Department of Water Resources has announced the release of the
Final Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Program Guidelines
and
PSPs for the Planning Grant, Implementation Grant, and Stormwater
Flood
Management (SWFM) Grant programs. The Guidelines and PSPs will be used
to disburse the IRWM grant funding pursuant to the Safe Drinking
Water,
Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection
Bond Act of 2006 (Proposition 84) and SWFM grant funding pursuant to
the
Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006
(Proposition
1E).

The IRWM Program is designed to encourage integrated regional
strategies for management of water resources and to provide funding
for
projects for both planning and implementation that support integrated
water management.

The Guidelines establish the general process, procedures, and criteria
that DWR will use to implement the IRWM Program including the IRWM
Planning, IRWM Implementation, and SWFM grants. The PSPs provide
specific instructions for potential applicants to apply for these
grant
programs. These newly released documents as well as other information
about the IRWM Grant Program can be found at:
http://www.water.ca.gov/irwm/index.cfm.


Thanks,
Dale Hopkins
A.L. Riley
for BAWN