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(B) condition of existing recreation areas and facilities; 
(C) demonstrated deficiencies in access to neighborhood recre-
ation opportunities, particularly for minority and low- and mod-
erate-income residents; 
(D) public participation in determining rehabilitation or develop-
ment needs; 
(E) the extent to which a project supports or complements tar-
get activities undertaken as part of a local government’s overall 
community development and urban revitalization program; 
(F) the extent to which a proposed project would provide— 
(i) employment opportunities for minorities, youth, and 
low- and moderate-income residents in the project neighbor-
hood; 
(ii) for participation of neighborhood, nonprofit, or tenant 
organizations in the proposed rehabilitation activity or in sub-
sequent maintenance, staffing, or supervision of recreation 
areas and facilities; or 
(iii) both; and 
(G) the amount of State and private support for a project as 
evidenced by commitments of non-Federal resources to project 
construction or operation. 
(2) AT-RISK YOUTH RECREATION GRANTS.—For at-risk youth recre-
ation grants, the Secretary shall give a priority to each of the following 
criteria: 
(A) Programs that are targeted to youth who are at the greatest 
risk of becoming involved in violence and crime. 
(B) Programs that teach important values and life skills, includ-
ing teamwork, respect, leadership, and self-esteem. 
(C) Programs that offer tutoring, remedial education, men-
toring, and counseling in addition to recreation opportunities. 
(D) Programs that offer services during late night or other non-
school hours. 
(E) Programs that demonstrate collaboration between local park 
and recreation, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and youth social 
service agencies and nongovernmental entities, including the pri-
vate sector and community and nonprofit organizations. 
(F) Programs that leverage public or private recreation invest-
ments in the form of services, materials, or cash. 
(G) Programs that show the greatest potential of being contin-
ued with non-Federal funds or that can serve as models for other 
communities. 
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(d) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—Grants to discretionary applicants under 
subsection (b) may not be more than 15 percent of the total amount of 
funds appropriated under this chapter for rehabilitation grants, innovation 
grants, and recovery action program grants. 
§ 200503. Rehabilitation grants and innovation grants 
(a) MATCHING GRANTS.—The Secretary may provide 70 percent match-
ing rehabilitation grants and innovation grants directly to eligible general 
purpose local governments on the Secretary’s approval of applications for 
the grants by the chief executive officials of those governments. 
(b) SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS.—An innovation grant 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 200504(c)(2) of this title. 
(c) TRANSFER.—If consistent with an approved application, a grant re-
cipient may transfer a rehabilitation grant or innovation grant in whole or 
in part to an independent special purpose local government, private non-
profit agency, or county or regional park authority if the assisted recreation 
area or facility owned or managed by the transferree offers recreation op-
portunities to the general population within the jurisdictional boundaries of 
the grant recipient. 
(d) PAYMENTS.—Payments may be made only for a rehabilitation project 
or innovation project that has been approved by the Secretary. Payments 
may be made from time to time in keeping with the rate of progress toward 
the satisfactory completion of the project, except that the Secretary, when 
appropriate, may make advance payments on an approved rehabilitation 
project or innovation project in an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the 
total project cost. 
(e) MODIFICATION OF PROJECT.—The Secretary may authorize modifica-
tion of an approved project only when a grant recipient adequately dem-
onstrates that the modification is necessary because of circumstances not 
foreseeable at the time at which the project was proposed. 
§ 200504. Recovery action programs 
(a) EVIDENCE OF LOCAL COMMITMENT TO ONGOING PROGRAMS.—As a 
requirement for project approval, local governments applying for assistance 
under this chapter shall submit to the Secretary evidence of their commit-
ments to ongoing planning, rehabilitation, service, operation, and mainte-
nance programs for their park and recreation systems. These commitments 
will be expressed in local park and recreation recovery action programs that 
maximize coordination of all community resources, including other federally 
supported urban development and recreation programs. During an initial in-
terim period to be established by regulations under this chapter, this re-
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quirement may be satisfied by local government submissions of preliminary 
action programs that briefly define objectives, priorities, and implementation 
strategies for overall system recovery and maintenance and commit the ap-
plicant to a scheduled program development process. Following this interim 
period, all local applicants shall submit to the Secretary, as a condition of 
eligibility, a 5-year action program for park and recreation recovery that 
satisfactorily demonstrates— 
(1) systematic identification of recovery objectives, priorities, and im-
plementation strategies; 
(2) adequate planning for rehabilitation of specific recreation areas 
and facilities, including projections of the cost of proposed projects; 
(3) the capacity and commitment to ensure that facilities provided 
or improved under this chapter shall continue to be adequately main-
tained, protected, staffed, and supervised; 
(4) the intention to maintain total local public outlays for park and 
recreation purposes at levels at least equal to those in the year pre-
ceding that in which grant assistance is sought except in any case 
where a reduction in park and recreation outlays is proportionate to 
a reduction in overall spending by the applicant; and 
(5) the relationship of the park and recreation recovery program to 
overall community development and urban revitalization efforts. 
(b) CONTINUING PLANNING PROCESS.—Where appropriate, the Secretary 
may encourage local governments to meet action program requirements 
through a continuing planning process that includes periodic improvements 
and updates in action program submissions to eliminate identified gaps in 
program information and policy development. 
(c) SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS.—Action programs shall address, but are 
not limited to— 
(1) rehabilitation of existing recreational areas and facilities, includ-
ing— 
(A) general systemwide renovation; 
(B) special rehabilitation requirements for recreational areas 
and facilities in areas of high population concentration and eco-
nomic distress; and 
(C) restoration of outstanding or unique structures, land-
scaping, or similar features in parks of historical or architectural 
significance; and 
(2) local commitments to innovative and cost-effective programs and 
projects at the neighborhood level to augment recovery of park and 
recreation systems, including— 
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(A) recycling of abandoned schools and other public buildings 
for recreational purposes; 
(B) multiple use of operating educational and other public 
buildings, purchase of recreation services on a contractual basis; 
(C) use of mobile facilities and recreational, cultural, and edu-
cational programs or other innovative approaches to improving ac-
cess for neighborhood residents; 
(D) integration of recovery program with federally assisted 
projects to maximize recreational opportunities through conversion 
of abandoned railroad and highway rights of way, waterfront, and 
other redevelopment efforts and such other federally assisted 
projects as may be appropriate; 
(E) conversion of recreation use of street space, derelict land, 
and other public land not now designated for neighborhood rec-
reational use; and 
(F) use of various forms of compensated and uncompensated 
land regulation, tax inducements, or other means to encourage the 
private sector to provide neighborhood park and recreation facili-
ties and programs. 
(d) PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER.—The Secretary shall establish 
and publish in the Federal Register requirements for preparation, submis-
sion, and updating of local park and recreation recovery action programs. 
(e) ELIGIBILITY FOR AT-RISK YOUTH RECREATION GRANTS.—To be eli-
gible to receive at-risk youth recreation grants a local government shall 
amend its 5-year action program to incorporate the goal of reducing crime 
and juvenile delinquency and to provide a description of the implementation 
strategies to achieve this goal. The plan shall also address how the local 
government is coordinating its recreation programs with crime prevention 
efforts of law enforcement, juvenile corrections, and youth social service 
agencies. 
(f) MATCHING RECOVERY ACTION PROGRAM GRANTS.—The Secretary 
may provide up to 50 percent matching recovery action program grants to 
eligible local governments for program development and planning specifically 
to meet the objectives of this chapter. 
§ 200505. State action 
(a) ADDITIONAL MATCH.—The Secretary may increase rehabilitation 
grants or innovation grants authorized in section 200503 of this title by 
providing an additional match equal to the total match provided by a State 
of up to 15 percent of total project costs. The Federal matching amount 
shall not exceed 85 percent of total project cost. 
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