46 U.S.C. § 13102: State recreational boating safety programs

To encourage greater State participation and uniformity in boating safety efforts, and particularly to permit the States to assume the greater share of boating safety education, assistance, and enforcement activities, the Secretary shall carry out a national recreational boating safety program. Under this program, the Secretary shall make contracts with, and allocate and distribute amounts to, eligible States to assist them in developing, carrying out, and financing State recreational boating safety programs. shall consider, among other things, factors affecting recreational boating safety by contributing to overcrowding and congestion of waterways, such as the increasing number of recreational vessels operating on those waterways and their geographic distribution, the availability and geographic distribution of recreational boating facilities in and among applying States, and State marine casualty and fatality statistics for recreational vessels; shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior to minimize duplication with the purposes and expenditures of chapter 2003 of title 54, United States Code, 1 the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act of 1950 ( 1 So in original. The words “United States Code,” probably should not appear. 16 U.S.C. 777–777k ), and with the guidelines developed under those Acts; and shall maintain environmental standards consistent with the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 ( 16 U.S.C. 1451–146 4) and other laws and policies of the United States intended to safeguard the ecological and esthetic quality of the waters and wetlands of the United States. A State whose recreational boating safety program has been approved by the Secretary is eligible for allocation and distribution of amounts under this chapter to assist that State in developing, carrying out, and financing its program. Matching amounts shall be allocated and distributed among eligible States by the Secretary as provided by section 13104 of this title . the number, size, and primary uses of recreational vessels operating on the waters of the United States; and the amount and types of fuel used by those vessels. The Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of the Interior may enter into contracts for the performance of a survey pursuant to this subsection. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Transportation shall jointly submit a report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President pro tempore of the Senate which describes the results of the survey conducted pursuant to this section not later than November 15, 1992 . using amounts available to the Secretary of the Interior for administrative expenses under the Act entitled ‘An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in fish restoration and management projects, and for other purposes’ ( 64 Stat. 430 ; 16 U.S.C. 777 et seq.); and subject to appropriations, using amounts available to the Secretary of Transportation under section 13106(a)(1) [now section 13107(a)] of title 46, United States Code (as amended by this Act).”