Proposals for WRAPS funding can be submitted in four categories to suit the four phases of a WRAPS process:

• Development: Stakeholder recruitment, determine interest, document stakeholder decisions.
• Assessment: Review watershed conditions, trends, develop expectations of the watershed and management measures in use, identify restoration and protection needs, creating a watershed model.
• Planning: Establish goals, identify actions that may achieve goals, develop cost estimates, select strategy, and identify stakeholder implementation strategies.
• Implementation: Secure resources needed to execute plan, monitor and document progress, revise plan as needed. Program guidance is developed by the WRAPS Work Group for projects funded within these categories.