50 C.F.R. Subpart A—General Information About the Grant Program
Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries
In this part, the terms “I,” “you,” “my,” and “your” refer to the State agency seeking participation in the national Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Program. “We” and “us” refers to the Fish and Wildlife Service. This part establishes your requirements under the Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act of 1998 to: (a) Participate in the national BIG Program, (b) Complete your boat access survey, and (c) Develop State plans to install tie-up facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels. This program provides funds for States to construct, renovate, and maintain tie-up facilities with features for transient boaters in vessels 26 feet or more in length, and to produce and distribute information and educational materials about the program. For the purposes of this part, the following terms are defined: Construct means engaging in activities that produce new capital improvements and increase the value or usefulness of existing property. These activities include building new tie-up facilities or replacing or expanding existing tie-up facilities. Grant means financial assistance the Federal Government awards to an eligible applicant. Grant agreement means a contractual agreement used to obligate Federal Aid funds for carrying out work covered by an approved grant proposal. Maintain means engaging in activities that allow the facility to continue to function, such as repairing docks. These activities exclude routine janitorial activities. Navigable waters means waters connected to or part of the jurisdictional waters of the United States that transient nontrailerable recreational vessels currently use or can use. Nontrailerable recreational vessels mean motorized boats 26 feet or more in length manufactured for and operated primarily for pleasure, including vessels leased, rented, or chartered to another person for his or her pleasure. Project means a specific plan or design. Proposal means a description of one or more projects for which a State requests grant funds. Recreational waters means navigable waters that vessels use for recreational purposes. Renovate means to rehabilitate or repair a tie-up facility to restore it to its original intended purpose, or to expand its purpose to allow transient nontrailerable recreational vessels. States means individual States within the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Survey instrument means a tool developed by the Service and approved by OMB to assess the need for boating facilities. Tie-up facilities mean facilities that transient nontrailerable recreational vessels occupy temporarily, not to exceed 10 consecutive days; for example, temporary shelter from a storm; a way station en route to a destination; a mooring feature for fishing; or a dock to visit a recreational, historic, cultural, natural, or scenic site. Transient means passing through or by a place, staying 10 days or less. Water-body means the lake, section of river, or specific area of the coast, such as a harbor or cove, where tie-up facilities or boat access sites are located. Boating infrastructure refers to features that provide stopover places for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels to tie up. These features include, but are not limited to: (a) Mooring buoys (permanently anchored floats designed to tie up nontrailerable recreational vessels); (b) Day-docks (tie-up facilities that do not allow overnight use); (c) Navigational aids (e.g., channel markers, buoys, and directional information); (d) Transient slips (slips that boaters with nontrailerable recreational vessels occupy for no more than 10 consecutive days); (e) Safe harbors (facilities protected from waves, wind, tides, ice, currents, etc., that provide a temporary safe anchorage point or harbor of refuge during storms); (f) Floating docks and fixed piers; (g) Floating and fixed breakwaters; (h) Dinghy docks (floating or fixed platforms that boaters with nontrailerable recreational vessels use for a temporary tie-up of their small boats to reach the shore); (i) Restrooms; (j) Retaining walls; (k) Bulkheads; (l) Dockside utilities; (m) Pumpout stations; (n) Recycling and trash receptacles; (o) Dockside electric service; (p) Dockside water supplies; (q) Dockside pay telephones; (r) Debris deflection booms; and (s) Marine fueling stations. You, with authority from your State Government. You must identify one key contact only and submit proposals through this person. To ensure that grants address the highest national priorities identified in the Act, we make funds available on a competitive basis. You must submit your proposals by the appropriate date as specified in §86.50. You must address certain questions and criteria (listed in §86.52) to be eligible and competitive. We will conduct a panel review of all proposals, and the Service Director will make the final grant awards. You may begin work on your project only after you receive a fully executed grant agreement. This part contains both routine information collection and survey requirements, as follows: (a) The routine information collection requirements for grants applications and associated record keeping contained in this part are only those necessary to fulfill applicable requirements of 43 CFR part 12. These requirements include record keeping and reporting requirements. See 43 CFR 12.4 for information concerning OMB approval of those requirements. (b) The revised information collection requirements related to the surveys will be submitted to OMB for approval as changed. They will not be imposed until we receive OMB approval under the provisions of 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. The surveys are voluntary and are for States to determine the adequacy, number, location, and quality of facilities that provide public access for all sizes of recreational boats. The public's burden estimate for the survey is as follows: (c) Send comments regarding this collection of information to the Service Information Collection Clearance Officer, MS—222 ARLSQ, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC 20240, and the Office of Management and Budget, Department of Interior, Desk Officer, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. An Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove the information collection but may respond after 30 days. Therefore, to ensure maximum consideration, you must send your comments to OMB by the above referenced date.
Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries
PART 86—BOATING INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT (BIG) PROGRAM
Subpart A—General Information About the Grant Program
§ 86.10 What does this regulation do?
§ 86.11 What does the national BIG Program do?
§ 86.12 Definitions of terms used in part 86.
§ 86.13 What is boating infrastructure?
§ 86.14 Who may apply for these grants?
§ 86.15 How does the grant process work?
§ 86.16 What are the information collection requirements?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average time Number of required per Annual burden Type of information respondents* response hours (minutes)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Boat owners: Part A............................................. 11,200 12 2,240Boat owners: Part B............................................. 28,000 12 5,600Boat Service Providers: Part C.................................. 8,400 20 2,800Boat Service Providers: Part D.................................. 4,000 20 1,333----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\*\ These numbers are not additive since some boaters will fill out both Parts A and B, and most of the providers will fill out both Parts C and D.
