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F26AS00009_FY 2026 - Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act - Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Tier 2

Award ceiling
up to $1,500,000
Closes
Oct 27, 2025
Last verified
2026-09-30

Awards up to $1,500,000 per recipient for state governments, closing Oct 27, 2025.

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F26AS00009_FY 2026 - Sportfishing and Boating Safety Act - Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Tier 2 awards up to $1,500,000 per recipient, open to state governments in AK, AL, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MP, MS, MT, NC, ND,…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$14,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$1,500,000
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Oct 27, 2025
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Aug 28, 2025
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
State governments
Geography
AK · AL · AR · AS · AZ · CA · CO · CT · DC · DE · FL · GA · GU · HI · IA · ID · IL · IN · KS · KY · LA · MA · MD · ME · MI · MN · MO · MP · MS · MT · NC · ND · NE · NH · NJ · NM · NV · NY · OH · OK · OR · PA · PR · RI · SC · SD · TN · TX · UT · VA · VI · VT · WA · WI · WV · WY
Matching funds
Yes
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Boat slips · piers · mooring buoys · dinghy or courtesy docks · day docks · gangways · Fuel stations · restrooms · showers · utilities · laundry facilities · Lighting · communications · buoys · beacons · signals · markers · signs · security features · Administration, coordination, and monitoring of the Tier 2 award
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$14,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,500,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
State governments
Source field: entity types
state
AK, AL, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE
+46more, FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MP, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VI, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY
Source field: states
industry
Source field: industries
use
Administration, coordination, and monitoring of the Tier 2 award, Boat slips, Fuel stations, Lighting, beacons, buoys, communications, day docks, dinghy or courtesy docks, gangways
+10more, laundry facilities, markers, mooring buoys, piers, restrooms, security features, showers, signals, signs, utilities
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Eligible applicants are the governor-designated agencies of the United States, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and the…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Oct 27, 2025ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

20 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Boat slipspiersmooring buoysdinghy or courtesy docksday docksgangwaysFuel stationsrestroomsshowersutilitieslaundry facilitiesLightingcommunicationsbuoysbeaconssignalsmarkerssignssecurity featuresAdministration, coordination, and monitoring of the Tier 2 award

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

2 fields
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
Yes
at least 25 percent of the total project cost in non-federal cost sharing or match

What comparable notices state

79 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 79 of 204 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$275,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$4,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

7 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $1,500,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$14,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Oct 27, 2025.
Who is eligible to apply?
State governments.
Which locations are eligible?
AK, AL, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, GU, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MP, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VI, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
What can the funding be used for?
Boat slips, piers, mooring buoys, dinghy or courtesy docks, day docks, gangways, Fuel stations, restrooms, showers, utilities, laundry facilities, Lighting, communications, buoys, beacons, signals, markers, signs, security features, Administration, coordination, and monitoring of the Tier 2 award, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
Yes. This programme requires matching funds. at least 25 percent of the total project cost in non-federal cost sharing or match

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-30
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-30

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