(a) Eligible grant activities—coastal States:

(1) Eligible activities include identification in the coastal zone of all
operational pumpout and dump stations, and surveys of recreational vessels in
coastal waters with holding tanks or portable toilets, and the areas where those
vessels congregate. Also eligible are costs of developing a list, including
chart coordinates, of all operational pumpout and dump stations in the coastal
zone of the State, for submission to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

(2) Plans for construction and renovation of pumpout and dump stations in the
coastal zone of the State necessary to ensure that these stations are adequate
and reasonably available to meet the needs of recreational vessels using the
coastal waters of the State. Completed Stated-funded plans may be submitted
after the technical guidelines appear in the Federal Register.

(b) Eligible grant activities—all States:

(1) Eligible grant activities include education/information program to
educate/inform recreational boaters about the environmental pollution problems
resulting from sewage discharges from vessels and to inform them of the location
of pumpout and dump stations.

(2) Eligible grant activities include the construction, renovation, operation
and maintenance of pumpout and dump stations, including floating restrooms in
the water, not connected to land or structures connected to the land, used
solely by boaters. Eligible grant activities also include any activity necessary
to hold and transport sewage to sewage treatment plants, such as holding tanks,
piping, haulage costs, and any activity necessary to get sewage treatment plants
to accept sewage, such as installing bleed-in facilities.

(c) Ineligible activities:

(1) Activities that do not provide public benefits.

(2) Enforcement activities.

(3) Construction/renovation of upland restroom facilities.

(4) Construction, renovation, operation and maintenance of on-site sewage
treatment plants, such as package treatment plants and septic systems, and of
municipal sewage treatment plants for primary and secondary treatment.