Description
The Boating Infrastructure Grants (BIG) Program provides funding to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands for the construction, renovation, and maintenance of boating infrastructure facilities for transient recreational vessels at least 26 feet long. The program aims to support the development of boating infrastructure that provides public access and benefits eligible users. Some examples of eligible activities include boat slips, piers, mooring buoys, dinghy or courtesy docks, day docks, and gangways, as well as fuel stations, restrooms, showers, utilities, laundry facilities, and similar amenities. The program also allows for funding of planning, permitting, engineering, cultural, historic, and environmental studies or assessments necessary to construct boating infrastructure.
• Eligible applicants are Governor-designated State agencies in the United States, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the territories of Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Mayor-designated agency in the District of Columbia.
• The maximum Federal award per State under BIG Tier 1 – State is 75 percent of the total allowable project cost up to $200,000.
• The program requires a minimum non-Federal match of 25 percent of project costs.
• The program encourages applicants to use Clean Vessel Act (CVA) funding for pumpouts and floating restrooms, as available.