Specifications include, but are not limited to: This funding provides an opportunity for small communities (population less than 10,000) to assess vulnerabilities and plan for the effects of Minnesota’s changing climate in three areas: how to increase resilience to stormwater and reduce localized flood risk, how to improve the resilience of wastewater systems, and how to reduce human health effects and adapt community services, ordinances and public spaces to the changing climate. Some examples of eligible planning projects in the three focus areas – Stormwater resilience: • Vulnerability assessment using a hydrologic/hydraulic model such as XP-SWMM or equivalent to identify areas (e.g. creek corridors, bridges, intersections, etc.) within a tribal/local governmental unit that are at risk for flooding. Includes assessment of changes in future precipitation with storm events of greater intensity and frequency to evaluate how to optimize resiliency of stormwater infrastructure. • Inventory of water infrastructure issues developed using new or existing modeling information to identify critical impacts (e.g. number of structures flooded, frequency of flooding, social vulnerability, local environmental impacts, etc.), including but not limited to consideration of existing asset management plans. Provides a prioritized list of critical areas needing infrastructure improvements to increase resilience. • Feasibility study that compares design alternatives (e.g. replacing small or undersized stormwater infrastructure, adding surface or underground stormwater storage areas, increasing infiltration of stormwater, etc.) to address known or predicted areas of flooding within a tribal/local governmental unit. Identifies a preferred alternative with sufficient information to support consideration for future construction funding. • Plan development (conducted in-house or by contract) for the bidding or contracting, design work, modeling, etc. needed for self-funded projects (not on the Project Priority List (PPL) / Intended Use Plan (IUP)) that have been identified by a tribal/local governmental unit risk assessment or adaptation/resilience plan. Wastewater resilience: • Risk assessment of wastewater facilities using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT) or similar analysis to discover which extreme weather hazards pose significant challenges to the utility, identify the critical assets at risk, and explore various actions to protect them. • Climate vulnerability assessment of public and/or privately-owned sewer and/or sewer sheds. • Planning and investigative work for climate resiliency of wastewater, sewer, and or Inflow & Infiltration (I&I) projects to determine implementation plan for self-funded projects (that are not anticipated to be part of a Facilities Plan for a Public Facilities Authority (PFA) /Project Priorities List (PPL)). • Plan development (conducted in-house or by contract) for the bidding or contracting, design work, modeling, etc. needed for self-funded projects (not on the Project Priority List (PPL) / Intended Use Plan (IUP)) that have been identified by a risk assessment or adaptation/resilience plan (CREAT or other).