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[CITE: 16USC2505]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 45--URBAN PARK AND RECREATION RECOVERY PROGRAM
 
Sec. 2505. Rehabilitation and innovation grants


(a) Authorization; transfer; payments; modification

    The Secretary is authorized to provide 70 per centum matching 
rehabilitation and innovative grants directly to eligible general 
purpose local governments upon his approval of applications therefor by 
the chief executives of such governments.
    (1) At the discretion of such applicants, and if consistent with an 
approved application, rehabilitation and innovation grants may be 
transferred in whole or in part to independent special purpose local 
governments, private nonprofit agencies or county or regional park 
authorities: Provided, That assisted recreation areas and facilities 
owned or managed by them offer recreation opportunities to the general 
population within the jurisdictional boundaries of an eligible 
applicant.
    (2) Payments may be made only for those rehabilitation or innovative 
projects which have been approved by the Secretary. Such payments may be 
made from time to time in keeping with the rate of progress toward the 
satisfactory completion of a project, except that the Secretary may, 
when appropriate, make advance payments on approved rehabilitation and 
innovative projects in an amount not to exceed 20 per centum of the 
total project cost.
    (3) The Secretary may authorize modification of an approved project 
only when a grantee has adequately demonstrated that such modification 
is necessary because of circumstances not foreseeable at the time a 
project was proposed.

(b) Special considerations

    Innovation grants 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 2506(b)(2) of this title.

(Pub. L. 95-625, title X, Sec. 1006, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3541.)


                          ``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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2507, 2512 of this title.
