Formula Grants; Project Grants. USES AND USE RESTRICTIONS: Matching grants can directly finance State staff salaries, equipment, and materials, and travel necessary to accomplish program purposes. States may transfer funds to third parties to carry out historic preservation activities such as surveys, preservation plans, National Register nominations, architectural plans and specifications, historic structures reports, and engineering studies necessary to restore properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and for acquisition or repair of these properties. Development projects must comprise one or more of the 4 allowable treatments defined in the "Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties" (36 CFR 78). These treatments are preservation, restoration, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. Major reconstruction is not eligible. Other activities must meet the applicable Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Archeology and Historic Preservation. In 2000, the amount appropriated from the Historic Preservation Fund for financial assistance to the States, Territories, and the Freely Associated States of Micronesia, was $31.598 million, with an additional $2.572 million for grants to Indian tribes, and $10.623 million for project grants to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In accordance with Section 102(a)(5) of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, grantees must agree to
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