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(G) Programs that show the greatest potential of being continued 
with non-Federal funds or that can serve as models for other com-
munities. 
(d) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—Grants to discretionary applicants under sub-
section (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 matching 
rehabilitation grants and innovation grants directly to eligible general pur-
pose 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 recipi-
ent may transfer a rehabilitation grant or innovation grant in whole or in 
part to an independent special purpose local government, private nonprofit 
agency, or county or regional park authority if the assisted recreation area 
or facility owned or managed by the transferree offers recreation opportunities 
to the general population within the jurisdictional boundaries of the grant re-
cipient. 
(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 appro-
priate, 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 fore-
seeable at the time at which the project was proposed. 
§ 200504. Recovery action programs 
(a) EVIDENCE OF LOCAL COMMITMENT TO ONGOING PROGRAMS.—As a re-
quirement 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 
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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 require-
ment may be satisfied by local government submissions of preliminary action 
programs that briefly define objectives, priorities, and implementation strate-
gies for overall system recovery and maintenance and commit the applicant 
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 maintained, 
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 preceding 
that in which grant assistance is sought except in any case where a re-
duction 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 economic 
distress; and 
(C) restoration of outstanding or unique structures, landscaping, 
or similar features in parks of historical or architectural signifi-
cance; and 
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(2) local commitments to innovative and cost-effective programs and 
projects at the neighborhood level to augment recovery of park and recre-
ation systems, including— 
(A) recycling of abandoned schools and other public buildings for 
recreational purposes; 
(B) multiple use of operating educational and other public build-
ings, 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 recreational 
use; and 
(F) use of various forms of compensated and uncompensated land 
regulation, tax inducements, or other means to encourage the pri-
vate sector to provide neighborhood park and recreation facilities 
and programs. 
(d) PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER.—The Secretary shall establish 
and publish in the Federal Register requirements for preparation, submission, 
and updating of local park and recreation recovery action programs. 
(e) ELIGIBILITY FOR AT-RISK YOUTH RECREATION GRANTS.—To be eligi-
ble 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 juve-
nile 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 en-
forcement, 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 pro-
viding an additional match equal to the total match provided by a State of 
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up to 15 percent of total project costs. The Federal matching amount shall 
not exceed 85 percent of total project cost. 
(b) ADEQUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF LOCAL RECOVERY PLANS.—The Sec-
retary shall encourage States to assist the Secretary in ensuring— 
(1) that local recovery plans and programs are adequately imple-
mented by cooperating with the Secretary in monitoring local park and 
recreation recovery plans and programs; and 
(2) consistency of the plans and programs, where appropriate, with 
State recreation policies as set forth in statewide comprehensive outdoor 
recreation plans. 
§ 200506. Non-Federal share of project costs 
(a) SOURCES.— 
(1) ALLOWABLE SOURCES.—The non-Federal share of project costs as-
sisted under this chapter may be derived from general or special purpose 
State or local revenues, State categorical grants, special appropriations 
by State legislatures, donations of land, buildings, or building materials, 
and in-kind construction, technical, and planning services. Reasonable 
local costs of recovery action program development to meet the require-
ments of section 200504(a) of this title may be used as part of the local 
match only when the local government has not received a recovery action 
program grant. 
(2) NON-ALLOWABLE SOURCES.—No amount from the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund or from any other Federal grant program other than 
the community development block grant programs shall be used to match 
Federal grants under this program. 
(b) ENCOURAGEMENT
OF STATES
AND PRIVATE INTERESTS.—The Sec-
retary shall encourage States and private interests to contribute, to the max-
imum extent possible, to the non-Federal share of project costs. 
§ 200507. Conversion of recreation property 
No property improved or developed with assistance under this chapter shall, 
without the approval of the Secretary, be converted to other than public recre-
ation uses. The Secretary shall approve such a conversion only if the Sec-
retary finds it to be in accord with the then-current local park and recreation 
recovery action program and only on such conditions as the Secretary con-
siders necessary to ensure the provision of adequate recreation properties and 
opportunities of reasonably equivalent location and usefulness. 
§ 200508. Coordination of program 
The Secretary shall— 
(1) coordinate the urban park and recreation recovery program with 
the total urban recovery effort and cooperate to the fullest extent possible 
with other Federal agencies and with State agencies that administer pro-
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