[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: 15CFR921.70]



[Page 107-108]

 

                  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 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''),



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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]