---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 86.16"
title: "50"
number: "86.16"
heading: "What actions are ineligible for BIG funding?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/86.16"
---

# §86.16. What actions are ineligible for BIG funding?

- (a) **These actions or costs are ineligible for BIG funding—**
  - (1) **Law enforcement.**
  - (2) Direct administration and operation of the facility, such as salaries, utilities, and janitorial duties. Janitorial duties may include:
    - (i) Routine cleaning;
    - (ii) Trash and litter collection and removal; and
    - (iii) **Restocking paper products.**
  - (3) **Developing a State plan to construct, renovate, or maintain boating infrastructure.**
  - (4) **Acquiring land or any interest in land.**
  - (5) Constructing, renovating, or maintaining roads or parking lots, except limited action as described at [§ 86.11(a)(1)](/cfr/50/86.11.md?p=a-1).
  - (6) **Constructing, renovating, or maintaining boating infrastructure for—**
    - (i) Shops, stores, food service, other retail businesses, or lodging;
    - (ii) Facility administration or management, such as a harbormaster's or dockmaster's office; or
    - (iii) Transportation, storage, or services for boats on dry land, such as dry docks, haul-outs, and boat maintenance and repair shops.
  - (7) **Purchasing or operating service boats to transport boaters to and from mooring areas.**
  - (8) **Marketing.** Examples of ineligible marketing actions include:
    - (i) Giveaway items promoting the business or agency;
    - (ii) General marina or agency newsletters or Web sites promoting the marina or agency;
    - (iii) Exhibits at trade shows promoting anything other than the BIG-funded facility; and
    - (iv) Outreach efforts directed at the marina as a business or the agency as a whole and not focused on BIG or the BIG-funded facility.
  - (9) **Constructing, renovating, or maintaining boating infrastructure that does not—**
    - (i) Include design features as described at [§ 86.13](/cfr/50/86.13.md);
    - (ii) Serve eligible vessels or users; and
    - (iii) Allow public access as described at [§ 86.92](/cfr/50/86.92.md).
  - (10) Purchase of supplies and other expendable personal property not directly related to achieving the project objectives.
- (b) Other activities may be ineligible for BIG funding if they are inconsistent with the:
  - (1) Purpose of BIG; or
  - (2) **Applicable Cost Principles at 2 CFR part 200, subpart F.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 777c, g, and g-1.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 26161, May 6, 2015, unless otherwise noted.