PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist States in the acquisition, monitoring, research, development and operation of national estuarine research reserves for the purpose of creating natural field laboratories to gather data and make studies of, and educate people about the natural and human processes occurring within the estuaries of the coastal zone.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Recreation;
2. NATURAL RESOURCES;
- Wildlife Research and Preservation;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- U.S. Territories and possessions (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);