[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 15, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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 Sec. Sec. 

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]