Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) Grant Review Timeline

2007 UPPER COLUMBIA PROCESS SCHEDULE
Tributary Fund and SRFB
Project Proposal Development, Submission, and Review
Final March 14, 2007

Note: We will post information for the next funding cycle as soon as it is available

Items in italics denote a new activity for 2007.

Chelan County Lead Entity

HOW DO LEAD ENTITIES WORK?

LEAD ENTITY STRATEGY

Each Lead Entity develops a recovery strategy to guide its selection and ranking of projects. The strategy prioritizes geographic areas and types of restoration and protection activities, identifies salmon species needs, and identifies local socioeconomic and cultural factors as they relate to salmon recovery. These stakeholder-supported strategies increase effective decision-making by Lead Entities and define and clarify roles between Lead Entities and the broader salmon recovery planning environment.

PROJECT SPONSORS

Project sponsors use the Lead Entity Strategy as a tool to identify and propose salmon habitat restoration and protection projects. Project sponsors typically are public or private groups or individuals, city, county, tribe, state agency, community group, non-government organization or private party. Project applicants fill out a project application and submit it to the Lead Entity for consideration. To ensure the success of projects funded through the Lead Entity process, project applicants are required to submit letters of support from affected landowners. The Lead Entity then applies its strategy through its local technical and citizens committees to evaluate and prioritize the projects.

REGIONAL TECHNICAL TEAM (RTT)

The regional technical team - made up of local technical experts - rates the projects submitted by project sponsors on their technical merit. These local technical experts are often the most knowledgeable about the local watershed, habitat and fish conditions. Their expertise is invaluable to ensure priorities and projects are based on ecological conditions and processes. They rate projects on the basis of their technical merits, benefits to salmon and the certainty that the benefits will occur.

CITIZENS COMMITTEE

The regional technical team submits its technical evaluation of projects to the citizens committee. In addition to local citizens, participants on citizens committees may include local, state, federal and tribal government representatives, community groups, environmental and fisheries groups, conservation districts, irrigation districts and industry representatives. The citizen committee is critical to ensure that priorities and projects have the necessary community support for success. Citizen committee members are often the best judges of the community's social, cultural and economic values, as they apply to salmon recovery, and of how to increase community support over time through the implementation of habitat projects. The citizen committee ranks the project list, and submits it through the Lead Entity for SRFB funding consideration.

SALMON RECOVERY FUNDING BOARD (SRFB)

The SRFB is made up of five Governor-appointed citizens and representatives from five state agencies. There are eight types of projects that can be submitted by applicants through the Lead Entity for funding consideration: acquisition, in-stream diversion, in-stream passage, in-stream habitat, riparian habitat, upland habitat, estuarine/marine near shore, and assessments and studies. The SRFB Technical Advisors meets with Lead Entities to learn about each Lead Entity's watershed and project identification process and to provide guidance on the Lead Entity strategy and how proposed projects meet that strategy. The SRFB Technical Advisors evaluate projects based on their benefit to salmon and certainty of success.

CHELAN COUNTY LEAD ENTITY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The Chelan County Lead Entity has been successful in getting 30 projects funded since the program began. The local Citizen Committee and Regional Technical Team are actively involved throughout the year, both with salmon recovery efforts and watershed planning work around the county.

TABLE 1: PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH THE CHELAN COUNTY LEAD ENTITY PROGRAM

SUCCESSES OF THE STATEWIDE LEAD ENTITY PROGRAM

In the brief time since the inception of the Lead Entity Program, each Lead Entity has identified and prioritized projects to protect and restore salmon habitat. As a group, the Lead Entity Program has also had several major successes since 1998.

THE LEAD ENTITY PROGRAM HAS GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY

Since its inception in 1998, the number of Lead Entities has increased from 8 to 26. Lead Entities now cover the majority of the state's salmon bearing streams.

TABLE 2: PROJECTS FUNDED THROUGH THE SALMON RECOVERY FUNDING BOARD

THE SRFB RELIES ON LEAD ENTITIES FOR PROJECT FUNDING DECISIONS

The SRFB has recognized the value and efficiency of coordinating numerous local projects through one entity. The SRFB requires all requests for salmon restoration and protection project funding under Chapter 77.85 RCW to go through the Lead Entity process for technical and citizen committee review and ranking.

THE LEAD ENTITY PROGRAM HAS ENHANCED STATE AGENCY COORDINATION

Agencies with major roles, including WDFW, Ecology, the Conservation Commission, and IAC, actively support and have specific staff dedicated to Lead Entities. These agencies have been steadily improving their deployment of staff resources as well as how they interact with each other.

WDFW FUNDING FOR LEAD ENTITIES ENABLES LOCAL LEVERAGING

Lead Entity operational funds provided by WDFW are a catalyst for broader watershed planning efforts. Most Lead Entity organizations use these funds in concert with other local, state and federal funds to enhance the coordination of salmon recovery efforts at the local level. Additionally, since WDFW's funds are distributed in a collaborative rather than competitive process, Lead Entities are not obligated to spend unproductive time on complicated grant application

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