§ 161C.4 — Water protection fund

Iowa § 161C.4

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title V: AGRICULTURE
• Ch. 161C: WATER PROTECTION PROJECTS AND PRACTICES

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1. A water protection fund is created within the division. The fund is composed of money
appropriated by the general assembly for that purpose, and moneys available to and obtained
or accepted by the division from the United States or private sources for placement in the
fund. The fund shall be a revolving fund from which moneys may be used for loans, grants,
administrative costs, and cost-sharing.
2. The fund shall be divided into two accounts, the water quality protection projects
account and the water protection practices account. The first account shall be used to
carry out water quality protection projects to protect the state’s surface and groundwater
from point and nonpoint sources of contamination. The second account shall be used to
establish water protection practices with individual landowners including but not limited to
woodland establishment and protection, establishment of native grasses and forbs, sinkhole
management, agricultural drainage well management, streambank stabilization, grass
waterway establishment, stream buffer strip establishment, and erosion control structure
construction. Twenty-five percent of funds appropriated to the water protection practices
accountshallbeusedforwoodlandestablishmentandprotection,andestablishmentofnative
grasses and forbs. Soil and water conservation district commissioners shall give priority to
applications for practices that implement their soil and water resource conservation plan.
3. In administering the fund the division may:
a. Contract, sue and be sued, and adopt rules necessary to carry out the provisions of this
section, but the division shall not in any manner directly or indirectly pledge the credit of this
state.
b. Authorize payment from the water protection fund and from fees for costs,
commissions, and other reasonable expenses.