[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR921.31]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 921--NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE SYSTEM REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart D--Reserve Designation and Subsequent Operation
 
Sec. 921.31  Supplemental acquisition and development awards.

    After National Estuarine Research Reserve designation, and as 
specified in the approved management plan, a coastal state may request a 
supplemental acquisition and/or development award(s) for acquiring 
additional property interests identified in the management plan as 
necessary to strengthen protection of key land and water areas and to 
enhance long-term protection of the area for research and education, for 
facility and exhibit construction, for restorative activities identified 
in the approved management plan, for administrative purposes related to 
acquisition and/or facility construction and to develop and/or upgrade 
research, monitoring and education/interpretive programs. Federal 
financial assistance provided to a National Estuarine Research Reserve 
for supplemental development costs directly associated with facility 
construction (i.e., major construction activities) may not exceed 70 
percent of the total project cost, except when the financial assistance 
is provided from amounts recovered as a result of damage to natural 
resources located in the coastal zone, in which case the assistance may 
be used to pay 100

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percent of the costs. NOAA must make a specific determination that the 
construction activity will not be detrimental to the environment. 
Acquisition awards for the acquisition of lands or waters, or interests 
therein, for any one reserve may not exceed an amount equal to 50 
percent of the costs of the lands, waters, and interests therein of 
$5,000,000, whichever amount is less, except when the financial 
assistance is provided from amounts recovered as result of damage to 
natural resources located in the coastal zone, in which case the 
assistance may be used to pay 100 percent of all actual costs of 
activities carrier out with this assistance, as long as such funds are 
available. In the case of a biogeographic region (see appendix I) shared 
by two or more states, each state is eligible independently for Federal 
financial assistance to establish a separate National Estuarine Research 
Reserve within their respective portion of the shared biogeographic 
region. Application procedures are specified in subpart I. Land 
acquisition must follow the procedures specified in Secs. 921.13(a)(7), 
921.21(e) and (f) and 921.81.

[58 FR 38215, July 15, 1993, as amended at 62 FR 12540, Mar. 17, 1997; 
63 FR 26717, May 14, 1998]