---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 86.32"
title: "50"
number: "86.32"
heading: "What are the match requirements?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/86.32"
---

# §86.32. What are the match requirements?

- (a) The Act requires that you or another non-Federal partner must pay at least 25 percent of eligible and allowable BIG-funded facility costs. We must waive the first $200,000 of the required match for each grant to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands ([48 U.S.C. 1469a](/usc/48/1469a.md)).
- (b) Match may be cash contributed during the funding period or in-kind contributions of personal property, structures, and services including volunteer labor, contributed during the period of performance.
- (c) Match must be:
  - (1) Necessary and reasonable to achieve project objectives;
  - (2) An eligible activity or cost;
  - (3) From a non-Federal source, unless you show that a Federal statute authorizes the specific Federal source for use as match; and
  - (4) Consistent with 2 CFR [200.29](/cfr/2/200.29.md) and [200.306](/cfr/2/200.306.md), and any other applicable sections of [2 CFR part 200](/cfr/2/part200.md). This includes any regulations or policies that replace or supplement [2 CFR part 200](/cfr/2/part200.md).
- (d) Match must not include:
  - (1) An interest in land or water;
  - (2) The value of any structure completed before the beginning of the period of performance, unless the Service approves the activity as a preaward cost;
  - (3) Costs or in-kind contributions that have been or will be counted as satisfying the cost-sharing or match requirement of another Federal grant, a Federal cooperative agreement, or a Federal contract, unless authorized by Federal statute; or
  - (4) **Any funds received from another Federal source, unless authorized by Federal statute.**

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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