[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR921.70]

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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 H_Special Interpretation and Education Projects
 
Sec. 921.70  General.


    (a) To stimulate the development of innovative or creative 
interpretive and educational projects and materials to enhance public 
awareness and understanding of estuarine areas, NOAA may fund special 
interpretive and educational projects in addition to those activities 
provided for in operations and management under Sec. 921.32. Special 
interpretive and educational awards may be awarded under this subpart to 
only those designated Reserves with approved final management plans.
    (b) Funds provided under this subpart may be available on a 
competitive basis to any state agency. However, if the applicant is 
other than the managing entity of a Reserve, that applicant must submit 
as a part of the application a letter from the Reserve manager 
indicating formal support of the application by the managing entity

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of the Reserve. These funds are provided in addition to any other funds 
available to a coastal state under the Act. Federal funds provided under 
this subpart may not exceed 70 percent of the total cost of the project, 
consistent with Sec. 921.81(e)(4) (``allowable costs''), 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.
    (c) Applicants for education/interpretive projects that NOAA 
determines benefit the entire National Estuarine Research Reserve System 
may receive Federal assistance of up to 100% of project costs.

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