16 USC 2505

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16 USC Sec. 2505 01/05/99

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TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 45 - URBAN PARK AND RECREATION RECOVERY PROGRAM

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Sec. 2505. Rehabilitation and innovation grants

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SEC. 1006.

(a)(1) The Secretary may provide 70 percent matching grants for rehabilitation, development, and innovation purposes to any eligible general purpose local government upon approval by the Secretary of an application submitted by the chief executive of such government.

(2) At the discretion of such an applicant, a grant under this section may be transferred in whole or part to independent special purpose local governments, private nonprofit agencies, or county or regional park authorities, if--

(A) such transfer is consistent with the approved application for the grant; and

(B) the applicant provides assurance to the Secretary that the applicant will maintain public recreation opportunities at assisted areas and facilities owned or managed by the applicant in accordance with section 1010.

(3) Payments may be made only for those rehabilitation, development, or innovation projects that have been approved by the Secretary. Such payments may be made from time to time in keeping with the rate of progress toward completion of a project, on a reimbursable basis.

(a) Authorization; transfer; payments; modification
The Secretary is authorized to provide 70 per centum matching
rehabilitation and innovative grants directly to eligible general
purpose local governments upon his approval of applications
therefor by the chief executives of such governments.
(1) At the discretion of such applicants, and if consistent with
an approved application, rehabilitation and innovation grants may
be transferred in whole or in part to independent special purpose
local governments, private nonprofit agencies or county or regional
park authorities: Provided, That assisted recreation areas and
facilities owned or managed by them offer recreation opportunities
to the general population within the jurisdictional boundaries of
an eligible applicant.
(2) Payments may be made only for those rehabilitation or
innovative projects which have been approved by the Secretary. Such
payments may be made from time to time in keeping with the rate of
progress toward the satisfactory completion of a project, except
that the Secretary may, when appropriate, make advance payments on
approved rehabilitation and innovative projects in an amount not to
exceed 20 per centum of the total project cost.

(4)~~(3)~~ The Secretary may authorize modification of an approved
project only when a grantee has adequately demonstrated that such
modification is necessary because of circumstances not foreseeable
at the time a project was proposed.
(b) Special considerations
Innovation grants should be closely tied to goals, priorities,
and implementation strategies expressed in local park and
recreation recovery action programs, with particular regard to the
special considerations listed in section 2506(b)(2) of this title.

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(Pub. L. 95-625, title X, Sec. 1006, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3541.)

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''SECRETARY'' DEFINED
Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior, see section 2 of
Pub. L. 95-625, set out as a note under section 2503 of this title.

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SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in sections 2507, 2512 of this title.