§200503 — Title 54 National Park Service and Related Programs | U.S. Code

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The Secretary can give matching grants that pay 70 percent of the cost for rehab or innovation projects to eligible local governments after the mayor or other top official applies and the Secretary approves. Innovation grants should be tied to local park and recreation recovery plans and pay attention to the special points listed in section 200504(c)(2). A grant recipient may pass a grant, in whole or part, to an independent local special-purpose government, a private nonprofit, or a county or regional park authority if the place helped by the grant serves the general public inside the recipient’s area. Money will only be paid for projects the Secretary approves. Payments can come as work moves forward, and the Secretary may give an advance payment up to 20 percent of the project cost. The Secretary will allow a change to an approved project only if the recipient shows the change is needed because of something not foreseeable when the project was proposed.

Title 54, §200503

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(a)The Secretary may provide 70 percent matching rehabilitation grants and innovation grants directly to eligible general purpose local governments on the Secretary’s approval of applications for the grants by the chief executive officials of those governments.

(b)An innovation grant 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 200504(c)(2) of this title.

(c)If consistent with an approved application, a grant recipient may transfer a rehabilitation grant or innovation grant in whole or in part to an independent special purpose local government, private nonprofit agency, or county or regional park authority if the assisted recreation area or facility owned or managed by the transferree 11 So in original. Probably should be “transferee”. offers recreation opportunities to the general population within the jurisdictional boundaries of the grant recipient.

(d)Payments may be made only for a rehabilitation project or innovation project that has been approved by the Secretary. Payments may be made from time to time in keeping with the rate of progress toward the satisfactory completion of the project, except that the Secretary, when appropriate, may make advance payments on an approved rehabilitation project or innovation project in an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the total project cost.

(e)The Secretary may authorize modification of an approved project only when a grant recipient adequately demonstrates that the modification is necessary because of circumstances not foreseeable at the time at which the project was proposed.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 20050316 U.S.C. 2505.Pub. L. 95–625, title X, § 1006, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3541. In subsection (a), the words “chief executive officials” are substituted for “chief executives” for consistency in the new title. In subsection (c), the words “At the discretion of such applicants” are omitted as unnecessary.

§200503 Rehabilitation grants and innovation grants

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Title 54, §200503

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