Equus Beds Division Acquifer Storage Recharge

 

To design and construct the City of Wichitas Aquifer Storage and Recovery project to divert flood flows from the Little Arkansas River into the Equus Beds Aquifer in order to recover depleted storage and protect the Aquifer.

Active 15.539 Bureau of Reclamation, Department of The Interior B - Project Grants Fiscal Year 2017 Information not available. Completed construction of Phase IIb components - Northern Diagonal Transmission Main and 72nd Street Transmission Main. Design of Bid Packages D1 Golden Prairie Transmission Main and E1 Surge Tanks are complete.
Fiscal Year 2018 Information not available.
Fiscal Year 2019 Phase II is complete. It included the construction of 21 Recharge/Recovery wells and associated infrastructure
Fiscal Year 2021 Reclamation executed an agreement with the City of Wichita for the design and construction to implement the Equus Beds Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Component which is a part of the ‘Integrated Local Water Supply Plan, Wichita, Kansas’
Fiscal Year 2022 Reclamation will modify the agreement to obligate additional funds and continue to work cooperatively with the City of Wichita, Kansas, to use, to the extent possible, plans, designs, and engineering and environmental analyses that have already been prepared by the City to implement the Equus Beds Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Component.
Fiscal Year 2023 Reclamation will enter into a new agreement to reimburse work that was completed between 2008 and 2016 but recipient was not reimbursed full federal cost-share. Wichita Project Equus Beds Division Authorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-299, Oct 5, 2006), as amended by Public Law 116-9 (March 12, 2019) The City of Wichita, Kansas M & I and agricultural waters users of South-central Kansas. Not applicable. Preapplication coordination is required. An environmental impact statement is required for this listing. An environmental impact assessment is required for this listing. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. Project construction could not be initiated until Reclamation completed the NEPA compliance process (EIS) which was completed January 19, 2010. 2 CFR 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards applies to this program. Annual work plans and a budget are submitted annually. Applicant must submit annual progress and expenditure reports along with a SF-425. The Missouri Basin Regional Office approves award and distribution of award. Contact the headquarters or regional location, as appropriate for application deadlines Not applicable. Not applicable. Additional funding for the program is at the discretion of Congress. The scopes of work must address and be responsive to the authorizing legislation, the final engineering report and the appropriation ceiling. The City of Wichita is specified in the legislation for funding of any work to be completed by September 2016. The program exists to provide funding (as appropriated by Congress) to the city of Wichita for reimbursement of the design and construction of the City’s ASR project to divert flood flows from the Little Arkansas River into the Equus Beds Aquifer in order to recover depleted storage and protect the Aquifer. Authority terminates 10 years from enactment of P.L 109-299. The City of Wichita will hold title to all facilities. Not applicable. Not applicable. All recipients of Federal awards shall maintain project records in accordance with 2 CFR 200.333 Retention requirements for records. Financial records, supporting documents, statistical records, and all other non-Federal entity records pertinent to a Federal award must be retained for a period of three years from the date of submission of the final expenditure report or, for Federal awards that are renewed quarterly or annually, from the date of the submission of the quarterly or annual financial report, respectively, as reported to the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity in the case of a subrecipient. Federal awarding agencies and pass-through entities must not impose any other record retention requirements upon non-Federal entities, except as noted in 2 CFR 200.333. Statutory formula is not applicable to this assistance listing.

Matching is mandatory. There is authorization to be appropriated as the Federal share of the total cost of the Equus Beds Division, an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the total cost or $30,000,000 (January, 2003 prices), whichever is less, plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indexes applicable to the type of construction involved herein, whichever is less. Such sums shall be non-reimbursable.

MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. The original authorization (P.L 109-299) was for ten years and expired in 2016. The authorization was amended to change the authorization to 20 years, ending in 2026, by P.L. 116-9. Payment terms vary by agreement awarded under this program. Luis Cruzado, Oklahoma-Texas Area Office 5316 Highway 290 West, Ste 110 Austin TX 78735-8931 Phone: (512) 899-4170, Fax: (512) 899-4179, E-mail: lcruzado@usbr.gov Lindsey Nafts
Buruea of Reclamation, Missouri Basin Regional Office, P.O. Box 36900, 316 North 26th Street
Billings, MT 59101 US
LNafts@usbr.gov
Phone: 406-247-7684 http://www.usbr.gov/gp/ 14-0680-0-1-301 (Cooperative Agreements) FY 22$3,275,000.00; FY 23 est $7,920,000.00; FY 24 est $10,000.00; FY 21$975,000.00; FY 20$0.00; FY 19$0.00; FY 18$0.00; FY 17$0.00; - Range: $0 - $2,042,760 Average: $360,272 2 CFR 200 UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL AWARDS and the applicable OMB Circulars. These documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation Office listed below. Fiscal Year 2017 Information not available. The City of Wichita is currently in the completion phase of Phase IIb.
Fiscal Year 2018 Information not available.
Fiscal Year 2019 Information not available.
Fiscal Year 2021 Equus Beds Aquifer Recharge and Recovery
Fiscal Year 2022 Design and construction project to divert flood flows and recover depleted storage in an Aquifer.