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16 USC Sec. 2506 01/05/99

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

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Sec. 2506. Local commitments to system recovery and maintenance

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(a) Recovery action programs; preliminary action programs;
five-year recovery action programs; continuing planning process
As a requirement for project approval, local governments applying
for assistance under this chapter shall submit to the Secretary
evidence of their commitments to ongoing planning, development, rehabilitation,
service, operation, and maintenance programs for their park and
recreation systems. These commitments will be expressed in local
park and recreation recovery action programs which maximize
coordination of all community resources, including other federally
supported urban development and recreation programs. During an
initial interim period to be established by regulations under this
chapter, this requirement may be satisfied by local government
submissions of preliminary action programs which briefly define
objectives, priorities, and implementation strategies for overall
system recovery and maintenance and commit the applicant to a
scheduled program development process. Following this interim
period, all local applicants shall submit to the Secretary, as a
condition of eligibility, a five-year action program for park and
recreation recovery that satisfactorily demonstrate:
(1) systematic identification of recovery objectives,
priorities, and implementation strategies;
(2) adequate planning for development and rehabilitation of specific recreation
areas and facilities, including projections of the cost of
proposed projects;
(3) capacity and commitment to assure that facilities provided
or improved under this chapter shall thereafter continue to be
adequately maintained, protected, staffed, and supervised;
(4) intention to maintain total local public outlays for park
and recreation purposes at levels at least equal to those in the
year preceding that in which grant assistance is sought beginning
in fiscal year 1980 except in any case where a reduction in park
and recreation outlays is proportionate to a reduction in overall
spending by the applicant; and
(5) the relationship of the park and recreation recovery
program to overall community development and urban revitalization
efforts.
Where appropriate, the Secretary may encourage local governments to
meet action program requirements through a continuing planning
process which includes periodic improvements and updates in action
program submissions to eliminate identified gaps in program
information and policy development.
(b) Recovery action program special considerations
Action programs shall address, but are not limited to the
following considerations:
(1) Rehabilitation of existing recreational sites and
facilities, including general systemwide renovation; special
rehabilitation requirements for recreational sites and facilities
in areas of high population concentration and economic distress;
and restoration of outstanding or unique structures, landscaping,
or similar features in parks of historical or architectural
significance.
(2) Local commitments to innovative and cost-effective programs
and projects at the neighborhood level to augment recovery of
park and recreation systems, including but not limited to
recycling of abandoned schools and other public buildings for
recreational purposes; multiple use of operating educational and
other public buildings; purchase of recreation services on a
contractual basis; use of mobile facilities and recreational,
cultural, and educational programs or other innovative approaches
to improving access for neighborhood residents; integration of
recovery program with federally assisted projects to maximize
recreational opportunities through conversion of abandoned
railroad and highway rights-of-way, waterfront, and other
redevelopment efforts and such other federally assisted projects
as may be appropriate; conversion of recreation use of street
space, derelict land, and other public lands not now designated
for neighborhood recreational use; and use of various forms of
compensated and uncompensated land regulation, tax inducements,
or other means to encourage the private sector to provide
neighborhood park and recreation facilities and programs.
The Secretary shall establish and publish in the Federal Register
requirements for preparation, submission, and updating of local
park and recreation recovery action programs. In order to be
eligible to receive ''at-risk youth recreation grants'' a local
government shall amend its 5-year action program to incorporate the
goal of reducing crime and juvenile delinquency and to provide a
description of the implementation strategies to achieve this goal.
The plan shall also address how the local government is
coordinating its recreation programs with crime prevention efforts
of law enforcement, juvenile corrections, and youth social service
agencies.
(c) Recovery action program grants
The Secretary is authorized to provide up to 50 per centum
matching grants to eligible local applicants for program
development and planning specifically to meet the objectives of
this chapter.

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(Pub. L. 95-625, title X, Sec. 1007, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3541;
Pub. L. 103-322, title III, Sec. 31504, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat.
1889.)

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AMENDMENTS
1994 - Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-322 inserted at end of concluding
provisions ''In order to be eligible to receive 'at-risk youth
recreation grants' a local government shall amend its 5-year action
program to incorporate the goal of reducing crime and juvenile
delinquency and to provide a description of the implementation
strategies to achieve this goal. The plan shall also address how
the local government is coordinating its recreation programs with
crime prevention efforts of law enforcement, juvenile corrections,
and youth social service agencies.''

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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 2505, 2508, 2512 of this
title.