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[FR Doc No: 94-31042]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program
AGENCY: National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of FY-1995 Grant Round--UPARR Rehabilitation and
Innovation Grants.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of grant funds under
the Rehabilitation and Innovation phases of the Urban Park and
Recreation Recovery (UPARR) Program and provides information on the
application process including eligible recipients and deadlines for
submission of proposals.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: ``UPARR,'' Recreation Grants Division,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior, P.O. Box 37127,
Washington, DC 20013-7127; (202) 343-3700.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For Fiscal Year 1995, $7,486,000 is
available for the funding of Rehabilitation and Innovation projects
under the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-
625). NPS will consider proposals for funding projects with a dollar
limit of $200,000 (Federal share of total project cost) under the
Rehabilitation phase of the program and projects with a dollar limit of
$50,000 (Federal share) under the Innovation phase. No more than ten
percent ($748,600) of the total amount appropriated will go toward the
funding of Innovation proposals. Preapplications must be received by
the appropriate NPS Regional Office by no later than April 17, 1995.
Rehabilitation grants will be targeted to rehabilitate existing
neighborhood recreation areas and facilities which have deteriorated to
the point where health and safety are endangered or the community's
range of quality recreation service is impaired. Proposals must be
designed to provide recreation services for residents within a
specified area identified by the applicant. Proposals may identify
improvements at multiple sites or facilities, each of which must be
individually addressed. Grants may be used to remodel, rebuild, expand,
or develop existing outdoor or indoor recreation areas and facilities.
Innovation grants may generally cover the costs of personnel,
training, facilities, recreation equipment, supplies or services
associated with the development of cost-effective ideas, concepts, and
approaches towards improving facility design, operations, or
programming for the delivery of recreation services.
Innovation projects should contribute to a systems approach to
recreation by linking recreation services with other critical community
programs such as housing, transportation, health and public safety,
water quality, energy conservation, crime prevention, etc. The project
should demonstrate a concept that is untried, unique, and/or advances
the state of the art for recreation at the national, regional or local
level. Interested jurisdictions are directed to 36 CFR 72.45 for more
detailed discussion of fundable elements under the Innovation phase of
the UPARR program.
In response to widespread interest in programs that help prevent
urban crime, 1995 grant awards will focus on, but not be limited to,
youth-at-risk approaches--for example, innovation programs that combine
recreation with education, counselling or mentoring activities aimed at
teens and/or rehabilitation proposals that target facilities that will
supply key recreation opportunities for the target youth populations.
Program participants may be aware that a new category of UPARR grants,
called ``At-Risk-Youth'' grants, was established as part of the 1994
Omnibus Crime Bill. However, funding is not authorized for such grants
before 1996. Consequently, the 1995 grant round will highlight crime
prevention in recreation programs, without being limited exclusively to
such grants. Preparations are now underway for administration of the
new UPARR grants authorized in the Crime Bill should funding for these
become available in 1996 or subsequent years.
Eligible Jurisdictions: Urban jurisdictions as listed in 36 CFR
part 72 appendix B will be eligible. Additional jurisdictions meeting
the criteria for eligibility described in 36 CFR part 72 appendix A,
and having been approved as discretionary applicants by NPS, may also
compete. All applicants must have a Recovery Action Program (RAP) which
has been approved by NPS within the past five years, and all projects
must be in accord with the priorities outlined in the approved RAPs.
Grant Implementation and Timing: Grantees must comply with all
applicable Federal laws and regulations for the UPARR program, which
include completion of a final grant agreement within 120 days of a
grant offer (based on NPS evaluation of preapplications submitted for
consideration).
Preapplication Requirements: Local chief elected officials (mayors,
etc.) applying for UPARR grants will be required to certify, in the
preapplication, that the grantee will comply with all requirements of
the UPARR program. Applicants must also identify the type of control
they have over properties to be assisted. Additional requirements are
outlined in the UPARR PREAPPLICATION HANDBOOK (updated for 1995)
available from the Regional Offices of NPS.
Matching Requirements: UPARR Rehabilitation and Innovation grants
are awarded on a 70/30 (Federal/local) matching basis. As an incentive
for state involvement in the program, the Federal Government will
match, dollar for dollar, state contributions to the local share of the
total project cost, up to 15 percent of the approved grant. The Federal
share is limited to no more than 85 percent of the approved grant cost
and the overall dollar limitations established above for Rehabilitation
and Innovation grants, respectively.
Pass-Through Funding: At the discretion of the applicant
jurisdiction, grants may be transferred, in whole or in part, to
independent general or special purpose local governments, private
nonprofit agencies or community groups, and county or regional park
authorities that provide recreation opportunities to the general
population within the jurisdictional boundaries of the applicant
jurisdiction. In such situations, the applicant jurisdiction will bear
full legal responsibility and liability for passed-through funds.
Post-Completion Requirements: In accordance with Section 1010 of
the UPARR Act of 1978, assisted properties may not be converted to
other than public recreation use without the prior approval of NPS and
the replacement of the converted site or facility with one of
reasonably equivalent usefulness and location. This provision may not
be applicable to funded Innovation projects depending upon the nature
of the assistance provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Interested jurisdictions should consult their
NPS Regional Office for further information including grant round
schedule dates and for technical assistance in applying for funding.
The NPS Regional Offices are listed below:
Mid-Atlantic
Chief, Planning & Grants Assistance Division, National Park Service,
200 Chestnut Street--3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106, 215-597-7995--
CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VA, VT, WV
Mid-West
Assistant Regional Director for Recreation Assistance Programs,
National Park Service, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha, NE 68102-2571, 402-
221-3201--IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, OH, WI
Pacific Northwest
Chief, Recreation Programs Division, National Park Service, 909 First
Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104-1060, 206-220-4083--AK, ID, OR, WA
Rocky Mountain
Chief, Division of National Recreation Programs, National Park Service,
P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO 80225-0287, 303-969-2850--CO, MT, ND, SD,
UT, WY
Southeast
Chief, Grants Division, National Park Service, 75 Spring Street, 10th
Floor, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-331-2610--AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, PR, SC,
TN, VI
Southwest
Assistant Regional Director for External Programs, National Park
Service, P.O. Box 728, Santa Fe, NM 87501, 505-988-6705--AR, LA, NM,
OK, TX
Western
Chief, Grants Branch, Division of Planning, Grants and Environmental
Quality, National Park Service, 600 Harrison Street--Suite 600, San
Francisco, CA 94107-1372, 415-744-3972--AS, AZ, CA, GU, HI, NV, CM.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance # 15.919)
(Title X, National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978, Pub.L. 95-625,
16 U.S.C. 2501-2514)
Dated: December 13, 1994.
Michael P. Rogers,
Acting Chief, Recreation Grants Division, National Park Service.
[FR Doc. 94-31042 Filed 12-16-94; 8:45 am]
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