Projects for facility development must have objectives related to one or more of the following purposes:

• Provide public access to boat sewage pumpout.

• Enhance public use of boat sewage pumpout facilities.

• Operation activities that will assure that affordable, clean and convenient pumpout facilities are available and functioning. This would include costs for operating the equipment, labor and disposal costs.

• Upkeep activities necessary to allow the facility to function, and include routine recurring custodial maintenance and minor repairs, as well as the supplies, materials and tools necessary to carry out the work. Also included is non-routine cyclical maintenance to keep facilities fully functional. Cyclical maintenance is major maintenance or renovation activities conducted at intervals normally greater than one year.

• Any activity necessary to hold and transport sewage to sewage treatment plants, such as holding tanks, piping, haulage costs; and any activity necessary to get sewage treatment plants to accept sewage, such as installing bleed-in facilities.

The grant will not pay for the construction or renovation of onshore restroom facilities, sewage treatment plants, septic tanks, drain fields or other special treatment devices.