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You may perform the following activities with funding under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act:
(a) Restore and manage wildlife for the benefit of the public.
(b) Conduct research on the problems of managing wildlife and its habitat if necessary to administer wildlife resources efficiently.
(c) Obtain data to guide and direct the regulation of hunting.
(d) Acquire real property suitable or capable of being made suitable for:
(1) Wildlife habitat; or
(2) Public access for hunting or other wildlife-oriented recreation.
(3) Shooting ranges under the basic and enhanced hunters education programs.
(e) Restore, rehabilitate, improve, or manage areas of lands or waters as wildlife habitat.
(f) Build structures or acquire equipment, goods, and services to:
(1) Restore, rehabilitate, or improve lands or waters as wildlife habitat; or
(2) Provide public access for hunting or other wildlife-oriented recreation.
(g) Operate or maintain:
(1) Projects that the State fish and wildlife agency completed under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act; or
(2) Facilities that the agency acquired or constructed with funds other than those authorized under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act if these facilities are necessary to carry out activities authorized by the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act.
(h) Coordinate grants in the Wildlife Restoration program and related programs and subprograms.
(i) Teach the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to be a responsible hunter.
(j) Construct, operate, or maintain firearm and archery ranges for public use.
(k) Enhance programs for hunter education, hunter development, and firearm and archery safety. Hunter-development programs introduce individuals to and recruit them to take part in hunting, bow hunting, target shooting, or archery.
(l) Enhance interstate coordination of hunter-education and firearm- and archery-range programs.
(m) Enhance programs for education, safety, or development of bow hunters, archers, and shooters.
(n) Enhance construction and development of firearm and archery ranges.
(o) Update safety features of firearm and archery ranges.
(p) Pay taxes you are required to pay and payments made to local governments in lieu of taxes which are commensurate with the local government services received.
(q) Establish endowment funds for the ongoing management of real property interests, including the monitoring and legal defense of easements.
(r) Lease equipment. Purchases of equipment are eligible if:
(1) You can justify that it is needed for the equipment’s useful life, or if
(2) Leasing the equipment is not feasible.
(s) Construction of administrative buildings.
(t) Technical guidance projects designed for providing advice to improve environmental conditions for, protect or create habitat for, or manage populations to increase public benefits for eligible wildlife species. Technical guidance projects designed for providing advice to improve environmental conditions for, protect or create habitat for, or manage populations to increase public benefits for eligible sport fish species.
(1) Construction of research facilities.
(u) State central services as long as they do not exceed 3 percent of the funds apportioned annually to your agency under the ActsThe relationship between the Basic Hunter Education and Safety subprogram (Basic Hunter Education) and the Enhanced Hunter Education and Safety program (Enhanced Hunter Education) is as follows:
Basic Hunter Education funds
Enhanced Hunter Education funds
(a) Which activities are eligible for funding?
Those listed at § 80.50(a) and (b).
Those listed at 80.50(c), but see 80.60(d) under Basic Hunter Education funds.
(b) How long are funds available for obligation?
Two Federal fiscal years.
One Federal fiscal year.
(c) What if funds are not fully obligated during the period of availability?
The Service may use unobligated funds to carry out the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 715 et seq.).
The Service reapportions unobligated funds to eligible States as Wildlife Restoration funds for the following fiscal year. States are eligible to receive funds only if their Basic Hunter Education funds were fully obligated in the preceding fiscal year for activities at § 80.50(b).
(d) What if funds are fully obligated during the period of availability?
If Basic Hunter Education funds are fully obligated for activities listed at 80.50(b), the agency may use that fiscal year's Enhanced Hunter Education funds for eligible activities related to Basic Hunter Education, Enhanced Hunter Education, or the Wildlife Restoration program.
No special provisions apply.
