50 C.F.R. Subpart B—Funding State Grant Proposals
Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries
Your project is eligible for funding if you propose to: (a) Construct, renovate, and maintain either publicly or privately owned boating infrastructure tie-up facilities. To be eligible you must: (1) Build these tie-up facilities on navigable waters, available to the public. You must design new construction and renovations to last at least 20 years; (2) Design these tie-up facilities for temporary use for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels; (3) Build these tie-up facilities in water deep enough for nontrailerable recreational vessels to navigate (a minimum of 6 feet of depth at the lowest tide or other measure of lowest fluctuation); (4) Provide security, safety, and service for these boats; and, (5) Install a pumpout station, if you construct a facility for overnight stays: (i) If there is already a pumpout within a reasonable distance (generally within 2 miles) of the facility, you may not need one; (ii) For facilities intended as day stops, we encourage you to install a pumpout; and, (iii) You may use funds from the BIG program, or the Clean Vessel Act pumpout grant program also administered by us, to pay for a pumpout station. (b) Do one-time dredging only, to give transient vessels safe channel depths between the tie-up facility and maintained channels or open water. (c) Install navigational aids, limited to giving transient vessels safe passage between the tie-up facility and maintained channels or open water. (d) Apply funds to grant administration. (e) Fund preliminary costs: (1) Preliminary costs may include any of the following activities completed before signing a grant agreement: (i) Conducting appraisals; (ii) Administering environmental reviews and permitting; (iii) Conducting technical feasibility studies, for example, studies about environmental, economic, and construction engineering concerns; (iv) Carrying out site surveys and engaging in site planning; (v) Preparing cost estimates; and (vi) Preparing working drawings, construction plans, and specifications. (2) We will fund preliminary costs only if we approve the project. (3) If the project is approved, the appropriate Service Regional Director must still approve preliminary costs. (f) Produce information and education materials such as charts, cruising guides, and brochures. Your project is ineligible for funding if you propose to: (a) Complete a project that does not provide public benefits, for instance, a project that is not open to the public for use; (b) Involve law enforcement activities; (c) Significantly degrade or destroy valuable natural resources or alter the cultural or historic nature of the area; (d) Construct or renovate principal structures not expected to last at least 20 years; (e) Do maintenance dredging; (f) Fund operations or routine, custodial, and janitorial maintenance of the facility; (g) Construct, renovate, or maintain boating infrastructure tie-up facilities for nontrailerable vessels, for example the following: (1) Tie-up slips available for occupancy for more than 10 consecutive days by a single party; (2) Dryland storage; (3) Haul-out features; and (4) Boating features for trailerable or “car-top” boats (boats less than 26 feet in length), such as launch ramps and carry-down walkways. (h) Develop a State program plan to construct, renovate, and maintain boating infrastructure tie-up facilities; and (i) Conduct surveys to determine boating access needs. (1) You may conduct the survey with funds allocated to motorboat access to recreational waters under subsection (b)(1) of section 8 of the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act of 1950, as amended (16 U.S.C. 777). (2) You may combine surveys under one contractor where feasible if you can realize a cost or other savings.
Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries
PART 86—BOATING INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT (BIG) PROGRAM
Subpart B—Funding State Grant Proposals
§ 86.20 What activities are eligible for funding?
§ 86.21 What activities are ineligible for funding?
