Criteria for establishing priorities in watershed planning.
Effective Nov 14, 199421 SDR 90Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; transferred from § 34:25:01:19, effective July 1, 1975; transferred from §12:03:01:19, 12 SDR 128, 12 SDR 154, effective July 1, 1986; 21 SDR 90, effective November 14, 1994. | General Authority: SDCL 38-7-8 , 46A-14-12. | Law Implemented: SDCL 46A-14-12.
The following criteria shall be used in the evaluation of watershed projects receiving federal assistance:
- (1) Organization of a watershed district or any ad hoc group authorized to form by resolution of the cooperating agencies;
- (2) The willingness of people to accept their responsibility for resource treatment and long-term management, easements for rights-of-way, structures, and long-term maintenance costs;
- (3) The percentage of resource treatment applied, the interest of local people in resource treatment, and the expected rate of application of resource treatment practices;
- (4) The possibility of multiple benefits and extent of use of these benefits;
- (5) The percentage of benefits and the cost-benefit ratio;
- (6) The capacity of the applicable federal agency to develop a plan;
- (7) The willingness of the local watershed steering committee and conservation district supervisors to appear before the commission and present their plan.
Source: SL 1975, ch 16, § 1; transferred from § 34:25:01:19, effective July 1, 1975; transferred from §12:03:01:19, 12 SDR 128, 12 SDR 154, effective July 1, 1986; 21 SDR 90, effective November 14, 1994.
General Authority: SDCL 38-7-8 , 46A-14-12.
Law Implemented: SDCL 46A-14-12.