Description
The Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Program provides cost-sharing awards to eligible agencies for the construction, renovation, and maintenance of boating infrastructure facilities for transient recreational vessels at least 26 feet long. Eligible activities include boat slips, piers, mooring buoys, fuel stations, restrooms, and other amenities. The program requires a 25% non-federal cost sharing or match. The maximum Federal portion of a Tier 2 award is $1,500,000.
Key aspects of the job include:
• Maintaining, renovating, and constructing new boating facilities and associated boater amenities
• Providing public access to boating facilities
• Benefiting transient recreational boaters in vessels of 26 feet in length and longer
• Meeting the requirements of the BIG Program regulations (50 CFR 86)
• Ensuring cost sharing requirements are met
• Submitting applications through Grants.gov or GrantSolutions.gov