1. (1) Public Navigation Facilities. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with capital improvements resulting in public navigation facilities, including the cost of acquisition, planning, development, construction, reconstruction, extension, post-construction, operation, maintenance and related activities. Eligible public navigation facilities include:

   1. (a) Primary Facilities.

      1. Public navigation channels;

      2. Spoil material disposal areas;

      3. Inlet management projects approved by the Board pursuant to Section 374.976(1)(b), F.S.;

      4. Public navigation channel markers or other aids to navigation, including, but not limited to, signs, symbols, beacons, buoys, or lights; and

      5. Other primary facilities as determined by the Board to benefit or enhance public navigation.

2. (2) Public Navigation Equipment. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with enhancing waterway operation or maintenance capabilities, including acquisition, overhaul and upgrade of the following equipment:

   1. (a) Vessels and appurtenant equipment, such as trailers, communication or navigation systems, sonar devices, lights and other similar vessel accessory apparatuses;

      Weather stations, sensors, gauges, data loggers, telemetry devices and related equipment providing real-time waterway conditions of WCIND waterways; and

   2. (b) Other equipment as determined by the Board to benefit or enhance public navigation.
3. (3) Public Navigation Intangible Property. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with enhancing waterway operation or maintenance capabilities, including acquisition of intangible property and development of intellectual property, such as software applications and operating systems, and web-based information and applications, and other intangible property as determined by the Board to benefit or enhance public navigation.
4. (4) Public Navigation Hazards. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with improving navigation safety, including planning, development, construction, post-construction and related activities necessary to remove abandoned or derelict vessels, and other navigation hazards or navigation safety activities on WCIND waterways as determined by the Board to benefit or enhance public navigation.

Rulemaking Authority 374.976(2) FS. Law Implemented 374.976(1)-(3) FS. History–New 3-3-21.