Welcome to the Alaska Coastal Management Program ACMP

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Welcome to the Alaska Coastal Management Program
(ACMP)
A Primer for Managing Your District Coastal
Management Program
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Where Do You Begin???
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• Begin at the beginning and go on till you come
  to the end then stop.
• Start at the Beginning Review Guidebook 1
  Introduction to the Alaska Coastal Management
  Program
• (in need of updating, but still a good overview
  of the ACMP)
• Review this years Required Tasks Grant Agreement
  from the Division of Community Advocacy (DCA),
  Department of Commerce, Community Economic
  Development.
• Mark your calendar for important due dates
  identified in Attachment A of your ACMP grant
  agreements.

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Some Important QuestionsTo Be Answered
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What Kind of Coastal Resource DistrictDo You
Serve?
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• Coastal Resource Districts (Districts) provide
  local participation in the ACMP. A number of
  different types of political jurisdictions can
  become coastal districts.
• Is your district a municipal district or a CRSA?
• Municipal Districts are political jurisdictions
  including
• municipalities
• boroughs
• first class cities, or
• second class city with planning authority.
• Coastal Resource Service Areas (CRSAs) service
  areas in the unorganized borough organized
  exclusively to participate in the ACMP.

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What are YouExpected to Do?
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• The Minimum Required Tasks
• of a Coastal District Coordinator include
• (outlined in Attachment A of your Required Tasks
  Grant Agreement)
• Administer grants
• Participate in the state coordinated consistency
  review process
• Monitor Compliance
• Do public education and outreach
• Review state and federal coastal management
  documents

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Municipal Coastal Coordinators

• Coordinate local consistency review
• Enforce local permits
• Ensure that local authorities do not conflict

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Who Can Help?
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• Your Peers other District Coastal Coordinators
  who have served in the trenches for many years.
• Your ACMP Team Each Coastal Coordinator is
  assigned to a person working at
• The Department of Natural Resources, Office of
  Project Management Permitting (OPMP)
• A Coastal Resource Specialist
• and
• The Department of Commerce, Community Economic
  Development, Division of Community Advocacy (DCA)
• A Coastal/Community Planner

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• Your OPMP Coastal Resource Specialist can
• Help you interpret your district plan policies
• Assist you through the planning process when you
  are in the midst of revising your district plan
  or developing a special area plan.
• Put you in touch with OPMP Project Review
  Coordinators who can help you with projects under
  state-coordinated review

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• Your DCA Planner can
• Help you with your grant application
• Discuss special project ideas with you
• Help you manage your coastal program/grant(s)
• Help you meet fiscal and performance reporting
  requirements
• Assist you in developing municipal tools under
  Title 29 of the Alaska Statutes to implement your
  district plan

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Money Matters Funding a District Coastal
Management Program
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• Money matters! Money provided by the ACMP to
  Alaskas coastal communities matters very much.
• In smaller municipalities, coastal management
  dollars fund part or all of a staff position.
• In the unorganized borough, coastal management
  dollars provide for the operation of Coastal
  Resource Service Areas (CRSAs).
• In larger municipalities, coastal management
  dollars stretch local resources further.

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The ACMP funds district activities primarily
through two different grant funding processes

• CZMA Section 306 (and sometimes Sections 310 and
  6217) provides funds to districts
• to implement the ACMP on a daily basis, and
• to support special projects proposed by
  districts.
• CZMA Section 309 Enhancement Grants provides
  funds for certain kinds of special projects,
• Available coastal districts as well as to state
  agencies

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The Annual Grant Process
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• The Division of Community Advocacy awards and
  manages the ACMP grants to coastal districts.
• Coastal districts participating in the annual
  grant process are eligible to receive two types
  of funding
• Special Project Grants.
• Required Tasks Grants, and

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Required Tasks FundingCZMA Section 306

• Annual grant funds come primarily from Section
  306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA).
• These federal dollars are primarily used to
  support the daily activities of Alaskas coastal
  districts (the Required Tasks Grant).
• Section 306 funds provide for
• the ongoing implementation of district plans and
  
• district travel to coastal management
  conferences and workshops organized by OPMP and
  DCA.
• In some funding years, Section 306 money also
  supports special projects for coastal districts
  (discussion forthcoming).

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Special Project FundingCZMA Section 309

• The purpose of the Section 309 Enhancement
  Grants Program is to improve State coastal
  management programs in one or more of nine
  nationally recognized coastal management
  categories.
• Districts may apply for Section 309 Special
  Project funding for projects that
• Enhance or contribute to meeting the needs and
  objectives identified in the states Enhancement
  Grants Program Strategy,
• Improve coastal management in the state, and
• Result in program change(s)
• Usually awarded on a competitive basis
• In FY05 and FY06, Section 309 funding to
  districts was used exclusively to support
  amendments to district coastal management plans

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Special Project FundingCZMA Sections 306, 310
and 6217

• In some fiscal years, Special Project funding
  for coastal districts is available under the
  following CZMA sections
• CZMA Section 306 for special projects that
  improve long-term program implementation,
  including the development of specialized plans
  such as wetlands or watershed management plans.
• CZMA Section 310 for special projects related to
  technical and management-oriented research that
  supplements the Enhancement Grants Program and
  addresses nonpoint source pollution, and
• NARA Section 6217 for special projects involving
  nonpoint source pollution control issues.

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Grant Reporting
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• Coastal districts under grant agreement with the
  State of Alaska must complete regular grant
  reports.
• All required reports are identified in the Scope
  of Work and Schedule sections of your grant
  agreement.
• In most cases, the required reports include
• quarterly progress and financial reports
• annual reports, and
• five-year program evaluations.

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Quarterly Progress Reports

• The quarterly progress reports allow districts to
  summarize activities, keeping DCA and OPMP
  informed about local issues. The progress report
  should identify
• Work accomplished under each of the work tasks
• Number of local permits reviewed for consistency
  with the district program
• Number of state and federal project reviews
  completed, including comments provided and
  related concerns

• Coordination and assistance provided to other
  members of the network
• Program-related travel and participation in
  program-related meetings
• Program coordination, assistance, and outreach
  activities
• Problems encountered in meeting the terms of the
  grant agreement
• Problems with your districts coastal management
  program
• Amendments needed to your districts grant
  agreement.

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Quarterly Financial Reports

• The financial portion of the reporting form is
  important. Municipal districts use the form to
  request reimbursement of funds expended during
  the previous quarter, while CRSAs use the form to
  request advance funding.

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Annual Report

• At the end of each fiscal year, districts report
  on the years activities. The Scope of Work
  section of the ACMP Required Tasks Grant
  Agreement includes the questions to answer in
  your annual report.
• The DCA Planner and OPMP Coastal Resource
  Specialist assigned to your district are
  interested in your views and carefully read each
  annual report.

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• Alaska Department of Commerce, Community
  Economic Development
• Division of Community Advocacy
• Sally Russell Cox, Planner
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email sally_cox_at_commerce.state.ak.us