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(G) Programs that show the greatest potential of being contin-
ued with non-Federal funds or which can serve as models for other 
communities. 
(c) LIMITATION OF FUNDS.—Grants to discretionary applicants under 
subsection (a) may not be more than 15 percent of the total amount of 
funds appropriated under this chapter for rehabilitation, innovation, and re-
covery action program grants. 
§ 105505. Rehabilitation and innovation grants 
(a) MATCHING GRANTS.—The Secretary may provide 70 percent match-
ing rehabilitation and innovative grants directly to eligible general purpose 
local governments on the Secretary’s approval of applications for those 
grants by the chief executives of those governments. 
(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 spe-
cial considerations listed in section 105506(c)(2) of this title. 
(c) TRANSFER.—At the discretion of the 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 govern-
ments, private nonprofit agencies or county or regional park authorities pro-
vided that assisted recreation areas and facilities owned or managed by the 
transferree offer recreation opportunities to the general population within 
the jurisdictional boundaries of an eligible applicant. 
(d) PAYMENTS.—Payments may be made only for rehabilitation or inno-
vative projects that have 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 a project, except that the Secretary, when appro-
priate, may make advance payments on approved rehabilitation and innova-
tive projects 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 grantee has adequately dem-
onstrated that the modification is necessary because of circumstances not 
foreseeable at the time a project was proposed. 
§ 105506. 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 
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supported urban development and recreation programs. During an initial in-
terim period to be established by regulations under this chapter, this re-
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 sites and facilities, includ-
ing— 
(A) general systemwide renovation; 
(B) special rehabilitation requirements for recreational sites and 
facilities in areas of high population concentration and economic 
distress; and 
(C) restoration of outstanding or unique structures, land-
scaping, or similar features in parks of historical or architectural 
significance; 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 
recreation systems, including— 
(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 GRANTS.—The Secretary may provide up to 50 percent 
matching grants to eligible local applicants for program development and 
planning specifically to meet the objectives of this chapter. 
§ 105507. State action 
(a) ADDITIONAL MATCH.—The Secretary may increase Federal imple-
mentation grants authorized in section 105505 of this title by providing an 
additional match equal to the total match provided by a State of up to 15 
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percent of total project costs. In no event may the Federal matching amount 
exceed 85 percent of total project cost. 
(b) ADEQUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF LOCAL RECOVERY PLANS.—The 
Secretary shall encourage States to assist the Secretary in ensuring that 
local recovery plans and programs are adequately implemented by cooper-
ating with the Department of the Interior in monitoring local park and 
recreation recovery plans and programs and in ensuring consistency of the 
plans and programs, where appropriate, with State recreation policies as set 
forth in statewide comprehensive outdoor recreation plans. 
§ 105508. Non-Federal share of project costs 
(a) SOURCES.— 
(1) ALLOWABLE SOURCES.—The non-Federal share of project costs 
assisted under this chapter may be derived from general or special pur-
pose State or local revenues, State categorical grants, special appro-
priations by State legislatures, donations of land, buildings, or building 
materials, and in-kind construction, technical, and planning services. 
Reasonable local costs of action program development to meet the re-
quirements of section 105506(a) of this title may be used as part of 
the local match only when local applicants have not received program 
development grants under the authority of section 105506(f) of this 
title. 
(2) NON-ALLOWABLE SOURCES.—No amounts from the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund established under section 105303 of this title 
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 
maximum extent possible, to the non-Federal share of project costs. 
§ 105509. 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 pub-
lic recreation uses. The Secretary shall approve such conversion only if the 
Secretary finds it to be in accord with the 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. 
§ 105510. 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 pos-
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