The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) provides grants for the planning, acquisition, development, expansion and rehabilitation of public boating facilities.
Donor Name: Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
State: Pennsylvania
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The goal of the program is to ensure Pennsylvania’s recreational boaters have the highest quality boating facilities.
Grant Period
All work must be completed within a two-year period.
Eligible Activities
Eligible activities include the rehabilitation, expansion or construction of new boat ramps, bulkheads, courtesy floats, access roads, parking areas, restrooms, signs and localized landscaping. All construction activities must benefit and directly support recreational boating. Eligible projects must occur on lands owned by the project sponsor, or where the sponsor has a long-term lease or agreement on the site. Grant funds are to be used for major site improvements and are not available for routine maintenance or operational activities.
Responsibilities under the grant program
- Eligible projects must occur on public lands owned by the project sponsor, or where the sponsor has a long-term lease or agreement on the site.
- Applicants must be willing to enter into a 25-year agreement to keep the facility open to public use.
- Applicants must agree to provide for all costs for ordinary and routine maintenance of the facility for the term of the agreement.
- Applicants must provide a sign that acknowledges that the facility was constructed or improved with funds from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
- Applicants must obtain all the necessary permits and local land use approvals required for the construction and operation of the proposed facility.
Who is eligible?
Boating Facility Grants are available to public entities, including townships, boroughs, municipal and county governments as well as to nonprofit groups (501c3) including land trusts, conservancies and watershed associations that have or will have the capability to provide boat access facilities that are open and available for general public use.
For more information, visit Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
