Section 111.4. Allowable costs—general

(a) Allowable costs are reasonable expenses actually incurred in the preparation and completion of scopes of study and watershed stormwater plans and plan revisions or reasonable expenses incurred in complying with the act and Stormwater Management Guidelines. Allowable costs include, but are not limited to, costs of data collection and analysis; surveys and inventories; planning and engineering analyses; administration, enforcement and implementation; and ordinance preparation and review.

(b) The Department may award grants for allowable costs incurred after the effective date of the act and before approval of Stormwater Management Guidelines and model ordinances by the General Assembly. The effective date of the amended act to be used by municipalities and counties for costs of administration, enforcement, implementation, and official plan revisions is May 24, 1984. The effective date of the act to be used by counties for costs of preparation of stormwater management plans is October 4, 1978. The county or municipality shall submit justification that this work is an integral and necessary part of the watershed stormwater plan. Proof of actual expenses incurred shall be required.