Funding categories
The Boating Safety and Facilities Program offers grant-based funding opportunities across the following categories:
Funding category
| Boating Infrastructure
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Funding allocated in 2011-12
| $3,190,000
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| Funding ratio | Up to 80 per cent of eligible project costs
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| Aims | To assist with the development and upgrading of boating facilities including: boat ramps, jetties, trailer parking, minor access dredging, selected infrastructure, and boating development plans.
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Open to
| Local waterway authorities, government agencies, committees of management, and community groups. |
Funding category
| Education and Training
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Funding allocated in 2011-12
| $75,000 |
| Funding ratio | Up to 80 per cent of eligible project costs
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| Aims | To encourage recreational boaters to participate in boating safety training courses to improve boater knowledge and safety on the waterways of Victoria.
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Open to
| Schools, community groups, fishing and boating groups, and local waterway authorities |
Funding category
| Search and Rescue
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Funding allocated in 2011-12
| $400,000 |
| Funding ratio | Up to 80 per cent of eligible project costs 100 per cent funding provided for SAR education and training.
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| Aims | To assist volunteer marine rescue groups to purchase rescue boats and other rescue equipment. Additionally, funding is available to provide volunteers with training opportunities and to aid search-and-rescue (SAR) organisations to ensure that their operators are appropriately trained and qualified to operate SAR vessels.
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Open to
| Dedicated SAR groups (recognised by Victoria Police), and community groups where no dedicated SAR organisation is located (registered with Victoria Police for these purposes). |
Funding category
| Aids to Navigation
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Funding allocated in 2011-12
| $525,000 |
| Funding ratio | Up to 100 per cent of eligible equipment purchases or development of boating zone reviews boating safety guides. Installation cost is capped at 10% of infrastructure cost.
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| Aims | To assist with the provision of major and minor signage, buoyage, navigational aids, vessel traffic systems and boating zone reviews for all waterways (except State waters) throughout Victoria.
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Open to
| Waterway Managers, appointed under the Marine Act'1988 or Marine Safety Act 2010. |
