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We published a proposed rule for the Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program on March 28, 2012, with a 60-day comment period. We accepted comments and determined to make significant changes based on those comments and our further review. We published a second proposed rule on April 25, 2014, with a 90-day comment period. We reviewed the 13 comments we received, and published a final rule. The purpose of the final rule is to clarify program requirements, update approaches based on legal and technical changes since 2001, apply lessons learned, and address issues in program management that were identified in a June 2005 report, "A Review of the BIG Program, 2000-2003," by the Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council, which is chartered by the Federal Advisory Committee Act.