1. Geographic location: How do you describe the geographic location of a project in the project statement. The regulation at 50 CFR 80.82(c)(6) requires the applicant to provide information on the geographic location, but it does not describe any format for this information. (75)
  2. Technical assistance: Include technical assistance in the list of eligible activities for Wildlife Restoration and Sport Fish Restoration.  Define technical assistance and consider limits on what would be eligible for funding. (80)
  3. Define law enforcement: Should the definition of law enforcement include: (a) the development of regulations and policies for hunting and fishing, and (b) preventive law enforcement? Examples of preventive LE are: leaflets for hunters and anglers; kiosks to provide information to hunters and anglers at hunter parking lots and boat landings; signs marking the boundaries of areas open or closed to hunting or fishing; and media releases related to hunting or fishing rules. (80)Please read this 1983 memorandum as background to the issue.
  4. Project purpose: Provide criteria on how to state the project purpose. (75)
  5. How do we establish substantiality in character and design? Can a project include fundamentally different elements as long as it is substantial in character and design?  For example, is there any reason a project could not include land acquisition, construction, and equipment purchase if the purpose of the project is to establish a new WMA? (80)
  6. Augmentation of appropriation: Clarify and provide examples in appendix (Appropriations Law, Vol. 2, Section 6. (75) Congress appropriates operating funds to Federal agencies and circumventing these financial limitations violates the prerogative of the legislature to set funding levels. 
  7. Eligibility of alligators, bullfrogs, and turtles: Should we include these species in the definition of wildlife or sport fish or alternatively include eligible activities oriented to these species under the Wildlife Restoration or Sport Fish Restoration programs?  Three States requested this in their comments on the 2010 proposed rule.  We did not make changes at that time because the issue had not gone through public notice and comment as part of a proposed rule.  (80)
  8. Define Assets:  What does "assets" mean for the purposes of 50 CFR 80.90(F).  Define the term "control" as well.
  9. Segments:  Clarify what a grant segment is and how WSFR uses them. (75)

 

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