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[CITE: 16USC777g-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
          CHAPTER 10B--FISH RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
 
Sec. 777g-1. Boating infrastructure


(a) Purpose

    The purpose of this section is to provide funds to States for the 
development and maintenance of facilities for transient nontrailerable 
recreational vessels.

(b) Omitted

(c) Plan

    Within 6 months after submitting a survey to the Secretary under 
section 777g(g) of this title, a State may develop and submit to the 
Secretary a plan for the construction, renovation, and maintenance of 
facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels, and access 
to those facilities, to meet the needs of nontrailerable recreational 
vessels operating on navigable waters in the State.

(d) Grant program

                         (1) Matching grants

        The Secretary of the Interior shall obligate amounts made 
    available under section 777c(b)(3)(B) of this title to make grants 
    to any State to pay not more than 75 percent of the cost to a State 
    of constructing, renovating, or maintaining facilities for transient 
    nontrailerable recreational vessels.

                           (2) Priorities

        In awarding grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give 
    priority to projects that--
            (A) consist of the construction, renovation, or maintenance 
        of facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels 
        in accordance with a plan submitted by a State under subsection 
        (c) of this section;
            (B) provide for public/private partnership efforts to 
        develop, maintain, and operate facilities for transient 
        nontrailerable recreational vessels; and
            (C) propose innovative ways to increase the availability of 
        facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational vessels.

(e) Definitions

    For purposes of this section, the term--
        (1) ``nontrailerable recreational vessel'' means a recreational 
    vessel 26 feet in length or longer--
            (A) operated primarily for pleasure; or
            (B) leased, rented, or chartered to another for the latter's 
        pleasure;

        (2) ``facilities for transient nontrailerable recreational 
    vessels'' includes mooring buoys, day-docks, navigational aids, 
    seasonal slips, safe harbors, or similar structures located on 
    navigable waters, that are available to the general public (as 
    determined by the Secretary of the Interior) and designed for 
    temporary use by nontrailerable recreational vessels; and
        (3) ``State'' means each of the several States of the United 
    States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
    Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of 
    the Northern Mariana Islands.

(Pub. L. 105-178, title VII, Sec. 7404, June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 486; 
Pub. L. 105-206, title IX, Sec. 9012(c), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 864.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of section 7404 of Pub. L. 105-178. Subsec. (b) 
of section 7404 of Pub. L. 105-178, as amended by Pub. L. 105-206, 
Sec. 9012(c), amended section 777g of this title.
    Section was enacted as part of the Sportfishing and Boating Safety 
Act of 1998, and also as part of the Transportation Equity Act for the 
21st Century, and not as part of the Fish Restoration and Management 
Projects Act which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-206, Sec. 9012(c), made a technical 
amendment to directory language of Pub. L. 105-178, Sec. 7404(b). See 
Codification note above.


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Title IX of Pub. L. 105-206 effective simultaneously with enactment 
of Pub. L. 105-178 and to be treated as included in Pub. L. 105-178 at 
time of enactment, and provisions of Pub. L. 105-178, as in effect on 
day before July 22, 1998, that are amended by title IX of Pub. L. 105-
206 to be treated as not enacted, see section 9016 of Pub. L. 105-206, 
set out as a note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 777c of this title; title 26 
section 9504.
