RECREATIONAL BOATING SAFETY STATE GRANT PROGRAM

The Recreational Boating Safety (RBS) state grant program provides essential funding to assist states in providing critical safety services in inland water or state water areas where the United States Coast Guard has little or no jurisdiction. This article provides a brief overview of the history of the RBS program and discusses how the program works. Most of the funds appropriated for the state RBS programs are allocated to the states in one-third shares as follows: one-third divided equally among participating states; one-third prorated based on the number of vessels registered by the state; and one-third prorated based on the amount of the state's prior-year expenditures for boating safety. States must match the federal funds with their own dollar-for dollar. The federal funds may be used for the following purposes: (1) providing facilities, equipment and supplies for boating safety education and law enforcement; (2) training personnel in skills related to boating safety and to the enforcement of boating safety laws and regulations; (3) providing public boating safety education to the boating community and the public school system; (4) acquiring, constructing or repairing public access sites used primarily by recreational boaters; (5) conducting safety inspections and marine casualty investigations; (6) establishing and maintaining emergency or search and rescue facilities, and providing emergency or search and rescue assistance; (7) establishing and maintaining waterway markers and other navigation aids; and (8) providing state recreational vessel numbering and titling programs.

  • Corporate Authors:

    United States Coast Guard

    National Maritime Center, 4200 Wilson Boulevard
    Arlington, VA  United States  22203-1804
  • Authors:
    • Carliss, L
    • Pickup, A
    • Poole, K
    • Timmons, J
  • Conference:
  • Publication Date: 2003-7

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: Figures; Tables;
  • Pagination: p. 18-22
  • Serial:
    • Volume: 60
    • Issue Number: 3

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00967936
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jan 4 2004 12:00AM