1. (1) Environmental Education Facilities. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with capital improvements resulting in environmental education facilities, including the cost of planning (except for feasibility analysis), development, construction, reconstruction, extension, post-construction and related activities. Eligible environmental education facilities include:

   1. (a) Primary Facilities. Exhibits, demonstrations or interpretive sites constructed and installed within an existing educational facility which provide a range of environmental educational and interpretive programs, including aquariums, signs, kiosks, trails or walkways, wayside panels, static, interactive, multimedia or virtual displays, and other similar features which convey information about environmental education.

   2. (b) Support Facilities.

      1. Permanent appurtenances mounted or fastened to the existing educational facility to support the structural integrity of an installed exhibits demonstration or interpretive site or required to connect to existing utility services; and

      2. Other support facilities as determined by the Board installed and integrated into an exhibits demonstration or interpretive site which provides an interactive user experience and conveys information about environmental education.

2. (2) Environmental Education Equipment. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with enhancing environmental education capabilities, including acquisition, overhaul and upgrade of audio visual equipment, specialized scientific equipment, and other equipment as determined by the Board to be integral to the curriculum and an enhancement of the environmental education experience.
3. (3) Environmental Education Intangible Property. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with enhancing environmental education capabilities, including acquisition of intangible property and the development of intellectual property, such as software applications and operating systems, web-based information and applications, curricula, including instructional tools and materials, and other intangible property as determined by the Board to be integral to the curriculum and an enhancement of the environmental education experience.

4. (4) Environmental Education Instruction. Program funds may be used to pay direct costs incurred in connection with enhancing environmental education capabilities, including the acquisition of specialized instruction services and the following supplies:

   1. Instructional materials for environmental education curriculum delivered via in-house classroom or on the water class instruction; and

   2. Other supplies as determined by the Board to be integral to the curriculum and an enhancement of the environmental education experience.

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