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Typical Projects
- Renovating boat launches
- Adding guest moorage facilities
- Building parking, restrooms, and other boating amenities
Who May Apply?
- Local agencies
- Park and recreation districts
- Public utility districts
- Port districts
- Native American Tribes
- State agencies
The above entities must be authorized legally to develop, operate, and maintain recreational facilities.
Planning Requirement
To apply for this funding, grant applicants must have completed a comprehensive recreation or conservation plan. See details on the planning page and in Manual 2: Planning Guidelines.
Funding
Funding is awarded every two years and comes from a portion of the gasoline tax paid by boaters.
Grant Limits
| Project Type | Grant Limit |
| Acquisition | $1 million |
| Development | $1 million |
| Combination of acquisition and planning OR acquisition and development | $1 million |
| Planning (architecture, engineering, environmental review, permitting) | The lesser of $200,000 or 20 percent of the estimated construction cost for a development or combined acquisition and development project. |
Administrative Costs
| Project Type | Administrative Costs Allowed |
| Acquisition | 5 percent of the total acquisition costs |
| Development and renovation | Architecture and engineering costs are limited to 20 percent of the total development project cost. |
Match Details
Match may include the following:
- Applicant’s labor, equipment, and materials
- Appropriations or cash
- Bonds
- Conservation futures
- Corrections labor
- Donations of cash, land, labor, equipment, and materials
- Federal, state, local, and private grants
Local agencies and special purpose districts must provide 25 percent match for each project, and at least 10 percent of the total project cost must be from a non-state, non-federal contribution.
State applicants do not need to provide match.
Tribes need to provide 25 percent match.
| Eligible Projects | Ineligible Projects |
| Acquisition | Any facility for leased, exclusive use, or long-term moorage |
| Development | Any facility primarily for commercial use or commercial vessels |
| Dredging, including both capital construction and periodic activities to remove materials deposited due to unforeseen events; dredging must extend facility usefulness for at least five years. (Revised Code of Washington 79A.25.080) | Maintenance dredging |
| Moorage floats, fixed docks, and buoys for guest boaters | Concessionaire buildings or space |
| Parking and staging areas | Fuel sales equipment including piping, fuel pumps, and storage tanks |
| Permits | Master plans or feasibility studies |
| Planning | Mobile vessel transporters |
| Ramps and fixed hoists for launching, loading floats | Projects on waters prohibiting gas-powered motors |
| Renovation | Project primarily for non-gas powered boats, such as canoes, kayaks, or diesel-powered craft |
| Sewage pump-out stations and porta-potty dump stations | |
| Support facilities upland, such as restrooms, showers, and picnic facilities used exclusively or primarily by guest recreational boaters |
Long-term Commitment
Property acquired, developed, or renovated with these boating grants must be kept for public outdoor recreation use forever. More information is in Manual 7: Long-term Obligations.