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eligible to participate in this program, to be accompanied by a 
discussion of criteria used in determining eligibility. Criteria shall 
be based on factors that the Secretary determines are related to 
deteriorated recreational facilities or systems and physical and eco-
nomic distress. 
(b) ADDITIONAL ELIGIBLE GENERAL PURPOSE LOCAL GOVERN-
MENTS.—In addition to eligible local governments established in 
accordance with subsection (a), the Secretary may establish eligi-
bility, in accord with the findings and purpose of the Urban Park 
and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–625, 92 Stat. 
3538), of other general purpose local governments in metropolitan 
statistical areas as defined by the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget. 
(c) PRIORITY CRITERIA FOR PROJECT SELECTION AND APPROVAL.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish priority cri-
teria for project selection and approval that consider such fac-
tors as— 
(A) population; 
(B) condition of existing recreation areas and facilities; 
(C) demonstrated deficiencies in access to neighborhood 
recreation opportunities, particularly for minority and low- 
and moderate-income residents; 
(D) public participation in determining rehabilitation or 
development needs; 
(E) the extent to which a project supports or complements 
target 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 pro-
vide— 
(i) employment opportunities for minorities, youth, 
and low- and moderate-income residents in the project 
neighborhood; 
(ii) for participation of neighborhood, nonprofit, or 
tenant organizations in the proposed rehabilitation 
activity or in subsequent 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 
recreation 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, 
including teamwork, respect, leadership, and self-esteem. 
(C) Programs that offer tutoring, remedial education, 
mentoring, and counseling in addition to recreation 
opportunities. 
(D) Programs that offer services during late night or 
other nonschool hours. 
(E) Programs that demonstrate collaboration between 
local park and recreation, juvenile justice, law enforcement, 
and youth social service agencies and nongovernmental
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entities, including the private sector and community and 
nonprofit organizations. 
(F) Programs that leverage public or private recreation 
investments in the form of services, materials, or cash. 
(G) Programs that show the greatest potential of being 
continued with non-Federal funds or that can serve as 
models for other communities. 
(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 rehabilita-
tion 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 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 
recipient may transfer a rehabilitation grant or innovation grant 
in whole or in part to an independent special purpose local govern-
ment, 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 popu-
lation 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 Sec-
retary. 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 innova-
tion project in an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the total 
project cost. 
(e) MODIFICATION
OF PROJECT.—The Secretary may authorize 
modification of an approved project only when a grant recipient 
adequately demonstrates 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 commitments to ongoing planning, rehabilitation, 
service, operation, and maintenance 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 interim period to be established by regulations under this 
chapter, this requirement may be satisfied by local government
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submissions of preliminary action programs that briefly define objec-
tives, priorities, and implementation strategies 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 implementation 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 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 pro-
gram to overall community development and urban revitaliza-
tion efforts. 
(b) CONTINUING PLANNING PROCESS.—Where appropriate, the Sec-
retary 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, 
including— 
(A) general systemwide renovation; 
(B) special rehabilitation requirements for recreational 
areas and facilities in areas of high population concentra-
tion and economic 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 pro-
grams 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 educational programs or other innovative approaches 
to improving access 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
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and such other federally assisted projects as may be appro-
priate; 
(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 uncompen-
sated land regulation, tax inducements, or other means 
to encourage the private 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 eligible to receive at-risk youth recreation grants a local govern-
ment 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 coordi-
nating its recreation programs with crime prevention efforts of 
law enforcement, juvenile corrections, and youth social service agen-
cies. 
(f) MATCHING RECOVERY ACTION PROGRAM GRANTS.—The Sec-
retary may provide up to 50 percent matching recovery action 
program grants to eligible local governments for program develop-
ment and planning specifically to meet the objectives of this chapter. 
§ 200505. State action 
(a) ADDITIONAL MATCH.—The Secretary may increase rehabilita-
tion 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. 
(b) ADEQUATE IMPLEMENTATION OF LOCAL RECOVERY PLANS.— 
The Secretary shall encourage States to assist the Secretary in 
ensuring— 
(1) that local recovery plans and programs are adequately 
implemented 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 com-
prehensive outdoor recreation plans. 
§ 200506. 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 purpose State or local revenues, State categorical 
grants, special appropriations by State legislatures, donations 
of land, buildings, or building materials, and in-kind construc-
tion, 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.