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- Don't forget about CPDS!
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Save the date - Joint TP & SAC meeting on Oct. 13
- Subscribe to the VSP calendar and never miss a meeting!
- Want to be on the agenda? Let us know!
- Habitat Recovery Funding Available through WDFW
- Quarterly reports are due Oct. 10
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Save the date - The next monitoring symposium is on Nov. 1
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Joint TP & SAC Meeting
Oct. 13, 2022 @ 9 a.m.
Meeting ID: 859 7490 0192
Passcode: 434300
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SCC is now accepting project applications for VSP projects to be completed by June 30, 2023. Applications must comply with the approved the VSP Supplemental Funding Guidelines.
Important reminders
- If you have submitted a project for funding in CPDS, and you have not answered all of the VSP-specific questions in CPDS, please go back into CPDS and update the project by answering the questions. Projects cannot be considered for funding until all of the VSP-specific questions have been answered.
- When entering projects into CPDS, please remember to verify that the project manager contact person and email is correct in the “property” tab. If this information is not correct, you will not receive notice from SCC regarding funding.
Each month, SCC staff will pull a list of VSP projects for consideration by the project review committee. Only completed applications in CPDS will be considered and projects that are not complete will not be considered for funding.
Unresponsive answers will result in fewer points being awarded to the project, and may result in the projecting not being funded. The complete list of questions is available in the Guidelines and in CPDS, but those questions that project proponents must answer include the following criteria.
Required criteria:
- Identify, using the list of functions and values, which salmon habitat resource needs or impacts this project addresses. Projects that address salmon habitat resource needs/impacts are those projects that provide a demonstrable benefit to salmon habitat by addressing resource needs or impacts. Examples include projects that reduce stream temperature, increase shade, address instream habitat, riparian area exclusion fencing, and/or remove barriers to fish passage. Please provide as complete a description of all needs or impacts as possible. Check all functions and values.
- What county VSP work plan goals or benchmarks is the project designed to meet? Please list all. Explain how the projects is designed to meet each goal or benchmark and provide as complete an explanation as possible.
- Certification that the work group has given its approval, and an open public meeting, for this project, and that the meeting minutes will be retained for proof and provided to SCC when requested.
Supplemental criteria:
- Is the project within a county-nominated priority watershed?
- Describe how the project clustered together (within the same HUC 12 as other projects, or another entity’s project) or near other projects or projects previously funded to address salmon habitat resource needs/impacts or similar natural resource concerns?
- Has the project been identified pursuant to RCW 77.95.060 (Regional fisheries enhancement group), or by a lead entity, or by another state agency and/or tribe as a priority in the watershed? Please identify the organization and/or tribe and the written report in which the project is identified. Please include in your answer the internet (URL) link to the report in which the project is listed.
- Is the project within an area or areas identified on the 303(d) listings for temperature? If yes, which one (Ecology’s Project Name) and is the TMDL “In Development” or “Approved”?
- Does the project have tribal partnership, participation, or funding? If so, please describe in detail.
- Does the project have ancillary benefits to other critical areas and will not cause degradation to other critical areas? If so, please describe, in detail, the ancillary benefits to other critical areas and include how the project will not cause degradation to other critical areas.
Proposals must meet criteria set out in the SCC’s VSP supplemental funding guidelines. The guidelines utilize existing SCC grant procedures (including the SCC's Grant and Contract Procedure Manual and its Conservation Practice Data System (CPDS)), and includes VSP-specific criteria. Those who submit projects for funding must be trained in the SCC’s grants and contracts procedures. Questions training should be directed to Karla Heinitz at the and CPDS questions should be directed to Courtney Woods.
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We also suggest checking the Technical Panel meeting and Statewide Advisory Committee meeting webpages for updated agendas.
Counties and county watershed work groups are always free to contact the Bill Eller, the VSP Coordinator at any time to see if there is room on any of the agendas.
Subject to availability, any county can come and present any issue they want at that joint meeting, and are encouraged to do so. Contact Bill Eller by phone at 509-385-7512 or through email below.
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The Washington departments of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and Natural Resources (DNR) are accepting proposals for up to $9 million in funding for projects that advance Puget Sound habitat recovery. Proposals are due Dec. 6.
Interested applicants can find more information about the solicitation, how to join the upcoming virtual webinar, and steps to apply on the Puget Sound National Estuary Program website.
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