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Parental Involvement Programs

Recreation

Disposal of Federal Surplus Real Property for Parks, Recreation, and Historic Monuments

This program transfers surplus federal real property to the public for parks and recreation use, or for use of historical real property. Surplus real property may be conveyed for public park and recreation use at discounts of up to 100 percent of fair market value and for historic monument purposes without monetary consideration. Property conveyed for park and recreation use of historic monument purposes must be used for these purposes in perpetuity.

Applicants for park and recreation purposes should contact National Park Service Regional Directors for the Southeast, North-Atlantic and Western Regional Offices. Applicants for historic monument purposes should contact with National Park Service Regional Directors for the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Western, Rocky Mountain, and Alaska Regional Offices (Appendix XI).

National Park Service
Recreation Resource Assistance Division
Department of the Interior
P.O. Box 37127
Washington, DC 20013-7127.
Contacts: Wendy E. Ormont (Park and Recreation Program). Telephone: (202) 343-2780.
Tom Jester (Historic Monument Program). Telephone: (202) 343-9587.

Public and Indian Housing Youth Sports Program

The Public and Indian Housing Youth Program has four objectives:

• to provide positive cultural, recreational, educational or other activities for youth from public and Indian housing projects as alternatives to the drug environment in those projects
  
• to eliminate the involvement by youth from public and Indian housing in drug-related crime and the use of drugs
  
• to encourage the cooperative efforts of states, units of local government, local parks and recreation districts and agencies, public housing agencies, non-profit organizations providing youth sports activities, Indian tribes and Indian housing authorities to provide activities for youth designed to serve as alternatives to the drug environment in public and Indian housing; and
  
• make available federal grants to be used in combination with funds from non-federal sources to implement program activities for youth from public and Indian housing projects. Programs must be targeted to youth ages 5 to 21 who reside in public or Indian housing. Only public housing agencies may apply for funds.

Regional contacts are listed in Appendices IX and X.

Crime Prevention & Security Division
Office of Community Relations and Involvement
Public and Indian Housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Room 4116
451 Seventh Street, SW
Washington, DC 20410
(202) 708-1197

Rivers and Trails and Conservation Assistance (RTCA)

This program provides staff assistance to support partnerships between government and citizens to increase the number of rivers and landscapes protected and trails established nationwide. Private nonprofit organizations and federal, state and local government agencies are eligible to apply.

Applicants are requested to communicate with National Park Service Regional Directors (Appendix XI).

William T. Spitzer
Division Chief
Recreation Resources Assistance Division
P.O. Box 37127
Washington, DC 20013
(202) 343-3780

Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program

The Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Program provides federal grants to local governments for the rehabilitation of recreation areas and facilities, demonstration of innovative approaches to improve park system management and recreation opportunities, and development of improved recreation planning. The Recovery Action Program grants are matching grants (50 percent federal-50 percent local) to local governments for the development of local park and recreation system recovery plans. Eligible applicants are cities and counties meeting the eligibility requirements. Eligibility is based on need, economic and physical distress, and the relative quality and condition of urban recreation facilities and systems.

See Appendix XI for regional contacts. Headquarters contact:

Chief
Recreation Grants Division
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
P.O. Box 37127
Washington, DC 20013-7127

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