Assistance program
Enhanced Hunter Education and Safety
$43.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 15.626
- What it does
- This program provides funds for the enhancement of hunter and archery education programs and the enhancement or construction of firearm shooting ranges and archery ranges as well as acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing public target ranges, including ranges on Federal land.
- Who benefits
- General Public. While direct participation is limited to fish and wildlife agencies, the general public and hunters will ultimately benefit from these enhanced hunter education measures.
- Who applies
- Participation is limited to State, Territory, or Commonwealth agencies (excluding the District of Columbia) with lead management responsibility for fish and wildlife resources in the United States of America. These entities must pass laws (assent legislation) for the conservation of fish and wildlife. The law(s) must require that revenue from hunting and fishing licenses be only used for the administration of the fish and wildlife agency.
- Authorized by
- Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act—Firearm and bow hunter education and safety program grants (16 U.S.C. §669h-1) as amended Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act (Public Law 116-17, May 10, 2019), as amended Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for T…
- Program site
- https://www.fws.gov/program/hunter-education ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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