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Aquatic Lands
Enhancement Account (ALEA)
Grants Program
This page last updated June 3, 2008
ALEA
2008 Proposed Projects
The Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account (ALEA) Grant Program
provides grant-in-aid support for the purchase, improvement,
or protection of aquatic lands for public purposes, and
for providing and improving access to such lands. It is
guided by concepts originally developed by DNR, including
re-establishment of naturally self-sustaining ecological
functions related to aquatic lands, providing or restoring
public access to the water, and increasing public awareness
of aquatic lands as a finite natural resource and irreplaceable
public heritage.
Eligible Grant Recipients
Any division of local or state government, as well as Native
American Tribes, are eligible to apply if legally authorized
to acquire and develop public open space, habitat, or recreation
facilities.
Federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private entities
are not eligible, but are encouraged to seek a partnership
with an eligible entity in order to pursue the public benefits
the ALEA Grant Program supports.
Eligible Projects
ALEA Grant Program funds may be used for the acquisition
(purchase), restoration, or improvement of aquatic lands for
public purposes, and for providing and improving public access
to aquatic lands and associated waters.
All projects must be consistent with the local shoreline
master program and must be located on lands adjoining a water
body that meets the definition of "navigable." For information on navigable waters, please see page 6 of Manual 21, Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account Grant Program: Policies and Project Selection, or contact a recreation and habitat grants manager.
Another resource on navigable waters, kept by the
United States Coast Guard (on the Internet at http://www.uscg.mil/d13/exhibit11_k1.pdf),
will assist in determining whether a water body is navigable.
Projects intended
primarily to protect or restore salmonid habitat must be consistent
with the appropriate lead entity strategy or regional salmon
recovery plan.
Grant Evaluation
A formal evaluation of each project is the process used to
decide which proposals will be submitted to the Governor's
Office for funding consideration. Applications are evaluated every other year. Applicants are required
to make an in-person presentation structured around the approved
ALEA Grant Program evaluation instrument. The evaluation instrument
has two types of questions: team scored and staff scored,
both of which have been adopted by Recreation and Conservation Funding Board (RCFB). The questions
are based on statutory and other criteria determined to be
necessary for program purposes.
Revenue Source
The ALEA Grant Program is funded entirely by revenue generated
by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
from management of state-owned aquatic lands. Revenue sources
include leases on state-owned waterfront sites and sale of
harvest rights for geoduck clams.
ALEA
Fact Sheet (PDF)
$5
Million in Grants Approved, Projects in Six Counties Funded
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