§ 777g-1. — Boating infrastructure.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC777g-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 10B--FISH RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
Sec. 777g-1. Boating infrastructure
(a) Purpose
The purpose of this section is to provide funds to States for the
development and maintenance of facilities for transient nontrailerable
recreational vessels.
(b) Omitted
(c) Plan
Within 6 months after submitting a survey to the Secretary under
section 777g(g) of this title, a State may develop and submit to the
Secretary a plan for the construction, renovation, and maintenance of
facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels, and access
to those facilities, to meet the needs of nontrailerable recreational
vessels operating on navigable waters in the State.
(d) Grant program
(1) Matching grants
The Secretary of the Interior shall obligate amounts made
available under section 777c(b)(3)(B) of this title to make grants
to any State to pay not more than 75 percent of the cost to a State
of constructing, renovating, or maintaining facilities for transient
nontrailerable recreational vessels.
(2) Priorities
In awarding grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give
priority to projects that--
(A) consist of the construction, renovation, or maintenance
of facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels
in accordance with a plan submitted by a State under subsection
(c) of this section;
(B) provide for public/private partnership efforts to
develop, maintain, and operate facilities for transient
nontrailerable recreational vessels; and
(C) propose innovative ways to increase the availability of
facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels.
(e) Definitions
For purposes of this section, the term--
(1) ``nontrailerable recreational vessel'' means a recreational
vessel 26 feet in length or longer--
(A) operated primarily for pleasure; or
(B) leased, rented, or chartered to another for the latter's
pleasure;
(2) ``facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational
vessels'' includes mooring buoys, day-docks, navigational aids,
seasonal slips, safe harbors, or similar structures located on
navigable waters, that are available to the general public (as
determined by the Secretary of the Interior) and designed for
temporary use by nontrailerable recreational vessels; and
(3) ``State'' means each of the several States of 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.
(Pub. L. 105-178, title VII, Sec. 7404, June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 486;
Pub. L. 105-206, title IX, Sec. 9012(c), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 864.)
Codification
Section is comprised of section 7404 of Pub. L. 105-178. Subsec. (b)
of section 7404 of Pub. L. 105-178, as amended by Pub. L. 105-206,
Sec. 9012(c), amended section 777g of this title.
Section was enacted as part of the Sportfishing and Boating Safety
Act of 1998, and also as part of the Transportation Equity Act for the
21st Century, and not as part of the Fish Restoration and Management
Projects Act which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-206, Sec. 9012(c), made a technical
amendment to directory language of Pub. L. 105-178, Sec. 7404(b). See
Codification note above.
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Title IX of Pub. L. 105-206 effective simultaneously with enactment
of Pub. L. 105-178 and to be treated as included in Pub. L. 105-178 at
time of enactment, and provisions of Pub. L. 105-178, as in effect on
day before July 22, 1998, that are amended by title IX of Pub. L. 105-
206 to be treated as not enacted, see section 9016 of Pub. L. 105-206,
set out as a note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 777c of this title; title 26
section 9504.
