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Boating Infrastructure Grant Program (BigP)

Application Period

2007: July 27–October 5

Related Documents

Proposed Program Guidelines (pdf)

BigP FAQ

Funded Projects

Federal Assistance Website

Federal Assistance Toolkit

Funding through competitive and non-competitive grants is provided for tie-up facilities for transient recreational boats 26’ or longer (non-trailerable).

This program is funded from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and is expressly used for projects such as:

  • Slips expressly designed for these recreational boats

  • Mooring buoys, day-docks, floating docks, floating breakwaters, safe harbors

  • Fixed piers, fixed breakwaters, retaining walls, bulkheads

  • Channel markers, buoys, directional information

  • Support facilities designated for transient recreational boats such as:

    • Restrooms

    • Pump-out stations

    • Dockside utilities, water supplies, recycling and trash receptacles

    • Initial, one-time only dredging, only to provide transient vessels with safe channel depths to the transient facility.

Tampa Convention Center Boat Facility
The Tampa Convention Center Boat
Facility was partially funded from a BigP grant.

Tampa Convention Center Boat Facility
The Tampa Convention Center Boat Facility.

Transient dockage at Fernandina Beach
Transient dockage at Fernandina Beach.

If you have any questions, please email BigP@MyFWC.com.