Boating Infrastructure Grant Money - BIG

Boat/US Magazine, July, 1999

A $32 million federal program designed to build facilities for transient, non-trailerable recreational boats that was pushed through Congress last year by BOAT/U.S. is beginning to make some headway at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the government agency that will administer the grant program.

According to the government's latest timetable, definitive information on how the program will work should appear in the Federal Register by Oct. 15 and interested states will be able to submit grant proposals beginning January 15, 2000.

The "boating infrastructure program" is being crafted to award projects on a nationally competitive basis. Such facilities could include transient moorings, dinghy docks, access piers and other amenities that could provide a safe haven for cruising boaters.