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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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