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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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