[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: 15CFR921.32]

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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. 921.32  Operation and management: Implementation of the management plan.

    (a) After the Reserve is formally designated, a coastal state is 
eligible to receive Federal funds to assist the state in the operation 
and management of the Reserve including the management of research, 
monitoring, education, and interpretive programs. The purpose of this 
Federally funded operation and management phase is to implement the 
approved final management plan and to take the necessary steps to ensure 
the continued effective operation of the Reserve.
    (b) State operation and management of the Reserves shall be 
consistent with the mission, and shall further the goals of the National 
Estuarine Research Reserve program (see Sec. 921.1).
    (c) Federal funds are available for the operation and management of 
the Reserve. Federal funds provided pursuant to this section may not 
exceed 70 percent of the total cost of operating and managing the 
Reserve for any one year, 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 percent of the costs. In the case of a biogeographic 
region (see Appendix I) shared by two or more states, each state is 
eligible for Federal financial assistance to establish a separate 
Reserve within their respective portion of the shared biogeographic 
region (see Sec. 921.10).
    (d) Operation and management funds are subject to the following 
limitations:
    (1) Eligible coastal state agencies may apply for up to the maximum 
share available per Reserve for that fiscal year. Share amounts will be 
announced annually by letter from the Sanctuary and Reserves Division to 
all participating states. This letter will be provided as soon as 
practicable following approval of the Federal budget for that fiscal 
year.
    (2) No more than ten percent of the total amount (state and Federal 
shares) of each operation and management award may be used for 
construction-type activities.

[58 FR 38215, July 15, 1993, as amended at 62 FR 12541, Mar. 17, 1997]