Reduces the local cost-share requirement to access the Watershed Rehabilitation Program for communities in limited resource areas.
Reduce the local cost-share requirement for the Watershed Rehabilitation Program in limited resource areas.
Occurrences
Reduces the local cost-share requirement to access the Watershed Rehabilitation Program for communities in limited resource areas.
Evidence
NRCS says REHAB helps project sponsors rehabilitate aging dams, with sponsors requesting assistance and entering agreements with NRCS; the page does not describe any limited-resource cost-share reduction.
The NRCS fact sheet says project sponsors are responsible for providing their share of project costs and shows eligible project costs at 65 percent federal and 35 percent local.
Assessments
The promised federal policy change is not shown as having occurred. Official NRCS program materials still describe the Watershed Rehabilitation Program as generally requiring a 65 percent federal and 35 percent local cost share, and the available evidence does not show a reduced local-share rule for limited-resource areas. Under a federal office standard, Davis would need to have secured or materially advanced an enacted change to receive delivery credit; the record provided does not show that happened.