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Newcomb Revitalization Action Plan 2015

• Regional Tourism Marketing Competition: Applicants must demonstrate how the project will work to

promote and forward the strategic goals of the corresponding Regional Council’s strategic plan.
Applications will be accepted for projects that include plans to market regional tourism destinations or
attractions and existing or newly created special events.

• Tourism Facility Funding: Applications will be accepted for projects that include plans to expand,

construct, restore or renovate regional tourism destinations and attractions.

Applicants with Regional Tourism projects that include both marketing and capital elements can apply for both

tracks. ESD generally seeks to provide no more than twenty percent (20%) of the financing for Tourism Facility
Funding projects.

Community Development Block Grant Program

• Public Infrastructure: The NYS CDBG Public Infrastructure program consists of two funding activities:
drinking water/ clean water/stormwater and public works. Eligible projects for NYS CDBG Public

Infrastructure may include the repair or replacement of existing systems, construction of new systems,
or expansion of existing systems into areas previously un-served that are in compliance with the NYS

Smart Growth Public Infrastructure Act (Chapter 433 of the Laws of 2010) and principally benefit low-
and moderate-income persons. Town Max $600,000. County Max $750,000.

• Planning: The NYS CDBG Planning program consists of two activities: Community Needs Assessments
and Preliminary Engineering Reports. Any planning proposal must address an activity which, if

implemented, meets at least one of two national objectives under the CDBG program. That is, it must be
shown that either 1) at least 51% of the persons who would benefit from implementation of the plan
are low- and moderate- income persons, or 2) the plan addresses a slum or blighted area in the

community. Max $50,000.

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