The purpose of this Community Project Guide is to provide communities receiving grant sponsorship for projects through the Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project with information, policies, and procedures to administer project funds in accordance with applicable federal guidelines. By referring to this Guide along with the appropriate Code of Federal Regulations when necessary, the community can meet the fiscal and accounting requirements needed for EPA compliance and effective project reporting.
In the Guide we use the term "community" to refer to any organization receiving EPA grant sponsorship for a watershed project.
The Guide is organized according to each stage in a sponsored project’s duration. After formal sponsorship approval through the Rouge Project’s Notice of Grant Availability process, the Guide provides information for the following project stages:
Benefits from becoming familiar with the information included in this Guide include:
Communities must be in full compliance with the Code of Federal Regulations when administering their projects for EPA Grant funding.
Throughout the Guide, we include references to federal documentation that can be used for additional information on administration of EPA grant funds. These additional references are available on disk from the Rouge Program Office (RPO).
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The RPO is available to assist communities in preparing project documents, procedures, and processes for compliance with EPA grant funding requirements. If you would like to speak with the RPO on these grant requirement and compliance issues, please contact Mr. Razik Alsaigh at (313) 967-2283 or Mr. Jerry Neibert at (313) 963-1313. We encourage you to call as questions arise – it is far better to ask a question ahead of time, than to try to find out how to "fix it" after an action has been taken.
Each project will have a Project Coordinator assigned from the Rouge Program Office to serve as the main point of contact for the community on project issues and monthly status reviews. Communities will be notified of their Project Coordinator upon approval of their project by the RPO.
All project correspondence can be addressed to:
Mr. Razik Alsaigh
Rouge Program Office
220 Bagley, Suite 920
Detroit, MI 48226
A chart depicting the groups involved in managing the Rouge River Project is shown below:
Please address all comments and suggestions about the contents of this Web page to rougeweb@co.wayne.mi.us.
The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project is funded, in part, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Grants #XP995743-01, -02, -03, -04, -05, -06, -08 and C-264000-01.