---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 200503"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "200503"
heading: "Rehabilitation grants and innovation grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/200503"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Outdoor Recreation Programs"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program"
---

# §200503. Rehabilitation grants and innovation grants

- (a) **Matching Grants.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) may provide 70 percent matching [rehabilitation grants](/usc/54/200501.md?p=8) and [innovation grants](/usc/54/200501.md?p=3) directly to eligible [general purpose local governments](/usc/54/200501.md?p=2) on the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3)’s approval of applications for the grants by the chief executive officials of those governments.
- (b) **Special Considerations.—** An [innovation grant](/usc/54/200501.md?p=3) should be closely tied to goals, priorities, and implementation strategies expressed in local park and recreation recovery action programs, with particular regard to the special considerations listed in [section 200504(c)(2) of this title](/usc/54/200504.md?p=c-2).
- (c) **Transfer.—** If consistent with an approved application, a grant recipient may transfer a [rehabilitation grant](/usc/54/200501.md?p=8) or [innovation grant](/usc/54/200501.md?p=3) in whole or in part to an independent [special purpose local government](/usc/54/200501.md?p=9-A), private nonprofit agency, or county or regional park authority if the assisted [recreation area or facility](/usc/54/200501.md?p=7) owned or managed by the transferree[^1] offers recreation opportunities to the general population within the jurisdictional boundaries of the grant recipient.
- (d) **Payments.—** Payments may be made only for a rehabilitation [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) or innovation [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) that has been approved by the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3). Payments may be made from time to time in keeping with the rate of progress toward the satisfactory completion of the [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4), except that the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3), when appropriate, may make advance payments on an approved rehabilitation [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) or innovation [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) in an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the total [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) cost.
- (e) **Modification of Project.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) may authorize modification of an approved [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) only when a grant recipient adequately demonstrates that the modification is necessary because of circumstances not foreseeable at the time at which the [project](/usc/54/200401.md?p=4) was proposed.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “transferee”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3183.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 200503 | 16 U.S.C. 2505. | Pub. L. 95–625, title X, § 1006, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3541. |

In subsection (a), the words “chief executive officials” are substituted for “chief executives” for consistency in the new title.

In subsection (c), the words “At the discretion of such applicants” are omitted as unnecessary.