State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan

Each state is required to prepare a Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP) every five years in order to be eligible for Land and Water Conservation Fund assistance through the Department of Interior, National Park Service.  The SCORP evaluates the demand and supply of public outdoor recreation resources throughout the state by identifying capital investment priorities for acquiring, developing and protecting all types of outdoor recreation resources.  The SCORP is also used to assure continuing opportunity for local units of government and private citizens to take part in planning for statewide outdoor recreation, and coordinates all outdoor recreation programs throughout Alabama.

Alabama has developed an Open Project Selection Process (OPSP) that provides objective criteria and standards for grant selection that are explicitly based on priority needs for the acquisition and development of outdoor recreation resources as identified in the SCORP. 

Planning grants and technical assistance available from the Department of Interior under provisions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (Public Law 88-578) have assisted Alabama in planning, developing, and publishing its most recent SCORP.  The latest publications are included below:

           Alabama SCORP 2008-2012

           Alabama SCORP 2002-2007

Title VI is directed at recipients of Federal financial assistance, and concerns itself with nondiscrimination to the ultimate beneficiaries of that assistance. Regulations of the U.S. Department of the Interior strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination in departmental federally assisted programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, age or handicap. Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility operated by a recipient of Federal assistance should write to:

Director
Office of Equal Opportunity
U.S. Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C. 20204