86.20—What activities are eligible for funding?
Your project is eligible for funding if you propose to:
(a)
Construct, renovate, and maintain either publicly or privately owned boating infrastructure tie-up facilities. To be eligible you must:
(1)
Build these tie-up facilities on navigable waters, available to the public. You must design new construction and renovations to last at least 20 years;
(2)
Design these tie-up facilities for temporary use for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels;
(3)
Build these tie-up facilities in water deep enough for nontrailerable recreational vessels to navigate (a minimum of 6 feet of depth at the lowest tide or other measure of lowest fluctuation);
(i)
If there is already a pumpout within a reasonable distance (generally within 2 miles) of the facility, you may not need one;
(iii)
You may use funds from the BIG program, or the Clean Vessel Act pumpout grant program also administered by us, to pay for a pumpout station.
(b)
Do one-time dredging only, to give transient vessels safe channel depths between the tie-up facility and maintained channels or open water.
(c)
Install navigational aids, limited to giving transient vessels safe passage between the tie-up facility and maintained channels or open water.
(1)
Preliminary costs may include any of the following activities completed before signing a grant agreement:
(iii)
Conducting technical feasibility studies, for example, studies about environmental, economic, and construction engineering concerns;
(3)
If the project is approved, the appropriate Service Regional Director must still approve preliminary costs.