ML073240712
| ML073240712 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 01/31/2007 |
| From: | Two Rivers Resource Conservation & Development Council |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NL-07-2097 | |
| Download: ML073240712 (1) | |
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Grants applications are accepted from May 15 - July 15 each year.
To apply, contact your local NRCS office. A statewide NRCS directory can be found at www.tworiversrcd.org or be calling 706/885-0101.
Governments, corporations or individuals that own or lease land with electrical or gas transmission lines may be eligible to receive cash grants and professional wildlife management advice.
Payments are based on acres managed and paid at a flat rate of $50 per acre per year for three years. The maximum allowable grant is $1,500 per participating utility.
The same acres may be re-enrolled provided the orig inal contract was maintained for three years and an additional three years have passed. This renewed elig ibility is referred to as "in three out three".
Atlanta Gas Light joined WINGS in 2003 and represents the first gas utility in the nation to offer wildlife grants specific to gas line rights-of-way.
The project impacts 7,746,000 electric and 1,500,000 gas customers in Georgia.
Although exact figures for participant expenditures such as lime, seed, fertilizer, and equipment are not available, the U. S. Commerce Department reports wildlife related expenditures in Georgia exceed $900,000,000 each year.
Benefits of Project WINGS include: reduction of R-O-W maintenance costs; increased transmission line crew productivity; safer work site conditions; maintained envir onmental integrity; conservation of soil resources; protection of water quality; safeguarding of wetl and areas; strengthening of wildlife dependent economies; heightened environmental awareness; and expanded wildlife opportunities
The project has been shared and replicated in Alabama and South Carolina. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is pursuing a version of Project WINGS to serve three mid-western states.
Project WINGS has been previously aired on the Turner South Network and has earned several national awards.
Since 1996, Project WINGS has provided $2,301,046 pr ivate grants to over 2,472 participants who have converted more than 16,800 acres to productive wildlife habitat.
Revised 2007 PROJECT WINGS Fact Sheet