[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: 15CFR921.32]



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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]