571—27.6 (456A) Project review and selection.
	 27.6(1) Review and selection committee. A five-member review and selection committee, hereinafter referred to as the committee, shall be composed of three staff members of the department as appointed by the director of the department, one member appointed by the director with input from the Iowa Association of County Conservation Boards, and one member appointed by the director of the department with input from the Iowa League of Cities and the Iowa Parks and Recreation Association. The committee shall determine which grant applications and amendment requests shall be selected for funding at the local level. A review and selection committee for state projects shall be composed of four staff members of the department as appointed by the director.
	 27.6(2) Consideration withheld. The committee will not consider any application which, on the date of the selection session, is not complete, or for which additional pertinent information has been requested and not received.
	 27.6(3) Application rating system for local projects. The committee will apply a numerical rating system to each grant application which is considered for fund assistance. The following criteria, with a weight factor for each, will be considered:

Criteria	Weight Factor	
Relationship to SCORP priorities	5	
Direct recreation benefits	1	
Local need	1	
Quality of site	1	
Each criterion will be given a score of from 1 to 10 which is then multiplied by the weight factor. The following additional criteria will be considered in the rating system:
	  a.   	 Prior assistance. Any applicant who has never received a grant will be given a bonus of five points. Any applicant who has received prior assistance which is more than its fair share will be assessed penalty points. Fair share will be computed by dividing 50 percent of Iowa’s total apportionment from the LWCF by the total state population and multiplying this amount by the population of the applicant agency. Penalty points will be assessed in accordance with the following schedule:

Prior Assistance in Excess of Fair Share	Penalty Points	
0 to $2.50 per capita	0	
$ 2.51 to 12.50 per capita	1	
12.51 to 22.50 per capita	2	
22.51 to 32.50 per capita	3	
32.51 to 42.50 per capita	4	
over 42.50 per capita	5	
	  b.   	 Bonus points. Additional points will be added to the total score for the following:
	 (1) 	 Projects which have special features for the elderly and handicapped above the normal access requirements for this population will receive three points.
	 (2) 	 Projects which include the use of recycled content materials will receive two points.
	 (3) 	 Projects which serve an area of greater minority population than the state average of 2.6 percent will receive points as follows:

Minority population greater than:	3.5 percent	1 point	
 	4.0 percent	2 point	
 	4.5 percent	5 point	
	 (4) 	 Projects which show evidence that the specific project has been through the normal channels of review and approval by proper local decision makers, thereby ensuring that public support and a commitment to develop and operate the facility are present and that the project under consideration is a part of (or does not conflict with) broader plans which exist, may receive up to three bonus points.
All points will be totaled for each application and those applications receiving the highest scores will be selected for fund assistance to the extent of the allotment for each review period. However, no application shall be selected which has received a score of less than 60. Such applications shall be returned to the applicant.
	 27.6(4) Application rating system for state projects. The committee will apply a numerical rating system to each grant application which is considered for fund assistance. The following criteria, with a weight factor assigned for each, will be considered:

Criteria	Weight Factor	
SCORP priority	4	
Quality of site	1	
Renovation/rehabilitation project	1	
Direct recreation benefits	1	
Each criterion will be given a score from 0 to 10, which is then multiplied by the weight factor. Additional points will be added to the total score for the following:
Projects which have special features for the elderly and handicapped above the normal access requirements for this population will receive three points.
Projects which include the use of recycled content materials will receive two points.
Projects which serve an area of greater minority population than the state average of 2.6 percent will receive points as follows:

Minority population greater than:	3.5 percent	1 point	
 	4.0 percent	2 point	
 	4.5 percent	5 point	
	 27.6(5) Applications not selected for fund assistance. Rescinded IAB 12/8/04, effective 1/12/05.