Specifications include, but are not limited to: Contractor will research all rules, regulations, policies, and operating procedures pertaining to surface water management in the following states: Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri. This would include any guiding language that dictates which entity has jurisdiction on surface water management projects, how such entity is determined, and the size of the geographic jurisdiction of such entity. If multiple surface water management regulatory structures exist within a given state, as in the case where multiple regulatory structure options are available by rule, regulation, policy, or operating procedure, all such options are to be researched and identified. The Contractor will identify any state that uses any form of watershed geography as an option for surface water management. The Contractor will also identify the full regulatory process, from project ideation to project permitting to final regulatory compliance, within each state. Although the Contractor’s focus will be on the surface water management regulatory authority research, the Contract is asked to also identify any additional regulatory responsibilities of the surface water management regulatory authority as they may be discovered in the research process. The Contractor will write a summary of findings report for each of the 16 states to be studied, which must include: a surface water management regulatory authority description, the use of watershed geography as a form of regulatory jurisdiction, a description of the full regulatory process for all permittable surface water management projects, and a summary of all identified additional authorities of the surface water management regulatory authority.
