OAR 250-014-0305: Maintenance Assistance Grant Program Eligibility and Requirements

(1) Eligible applicants include cities, counties, park and recreation districts, port districts, and state agencies. (2) Only motorized and mixed-use access sites are eligible for Maintenance Assistance Grants through this program. (3) To be eligible, an access site must have a single-lane launch ramp with at least six vehicle/boat trailer and two single-car parking spaces, or at least 100 linear feet of short-term tie-up docks. During the peak season, at a minimum, the access site must have at least one single-stall restroom and one garbage can. (4) To be eligible, a pumpout station, dump station, or floating restroom must provide free use to the public during the peak season. (5) Maintenance Assistance Grant funds for access sites may not exceed 60 percent of overall maintenance costs. Maintenance Assistance Grant funds for a pumpout station, dump station, or floating restroom may not exceed 75 percent of overall costs. Participant match may not include certain ineligible activities. (6) Maintenance Assistance Grant funds may not be used for operation, maintenance or overhead costs associated with fish cleaning stations, boat wash stations, marine fuel stations, long-term marina or moorage facilities, campgrounds, trails, picnic areas or shelters, swim areas, other large day-use components. Maintenance Assistance Grant funds may also not be used for the operation, maintenance or overhead of any eligible improved boating facility or portion of eligible improved boating facility used for commercial activities that limit public recreational boating use or access, unless the commercial activities are incidental. (7) Participants may not use Maintenance Assistance Grant funds for capital projects or match for other grants.