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<p><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Impact",sans-serif;color:#00457A">Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#00457A">235 Promenade Street | Providence, RI 02908 | 401.222.4700 |</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">
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<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Gail Mastrati, 401-255-6144</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Friday, September 11, 2020
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:gail.mastrati@dem.ri.gov"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">gail.mastrati@dem.ri.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">DEM ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF $3.1 MILLION IN FEDERAL CARES ACT FISHERIES ASSISTANCE FUNDING</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Application Period Open from September 14-28</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">PROVIDENCE - The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) will begin accepting applications for federal CARES Act fisheries assistance funding on Monday, September 14. The application
period will be limited to 15 days, with a firm deadline of Monday, September 28.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">A total of $3,167,923 in federal funding assistance is available for eligible participants in the Rhode Island commercial and for-hire fisheries, including commercial harvesters, commercial
aquaculturists, seafood processors/dealers, and for-hire vessel/business owners. Applicants must be Rhode Island residents and at least 18 years of age, and meet the following eligibility criteria:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">● Must have owned a properly licensed business in 2020 that was engaged in one or more of the four fishery sectors, noted above, between March 1 and May 31 during one or more years over the five-year period
2015-2019; and</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">● Must have incurred, as a direct or indirect result of the coronavirus pandemic, a documented fishery-related loss in revenue, during the period between March 1 and May 31, 2020, greater than 35% relative
to average fishery-related revenues earned during the same 3-month period over the prior 5 years (2015-2019), or active portion thereof if fishery-related revenues did not encompass the entire 5-year period.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">All applicants must complete the application form titled “Federal CARES Act – Fisheries Relief Affidavit and Application for Eligible Fishery Participants from Rhode Island,” issued
by the Department. The application form may be downloaded and printed from DEM’s Marine Fisheries website at:
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/marine-fisheries/Fisheries-CARES-Act.php"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/marine-fisheries/Fisheries-CARES-Act.php</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">.
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Applications may also be picked up at the following locations from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">● DEM Division of Coastal Resources, 301 Great Island Road, Narragansett</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">● DEM Division of Marine Fisheries, 3 Fort Wetherill Road, Jamestown</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">● DEM Office of Technical and Customer Assistance, 235 Promenade Street, Providence</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Fully completed applications must be hand-delivered to one of the three DEM offices listed above no later than 4:00 pm on Monday, September 28. No applications will be accepted if they
are submitted after the September 28 deadline.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Because applicants need to reference verifiable data in their applications to substantiate their claims, prospective applicants are strongly advised to request their landings and sales
data from DEM right away, well in advance of the application deadline. A data request portal is currently available at:
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/marine-fisheries/Fisheries-CARES-Act.php"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/marine-fisheries/Fisheries-CARES-Act.php</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">.
The portal will close on September 23, 2020, five days before the end of the application period.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">All information pertaining to the program, including the application process, is detailed in the
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://rules.sos.ri.gov/regulations/part/250-90-00-16"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Emergency Regulations Governing the Administration of Federal Fisheries Relief
Funding Provided to the State of Rhode Island Under the CARES Act</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, 250-RICR-90-00-16</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">, filed with the Rhode Island Secretary
of State by DEM Director Janet Coit on September 9, 2020. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">For additional information pertaining to the program, visit
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/marine-fisheries/Fisheries-CARES-Act.php"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/marine-fisheries/Fisheries-CARES-Act.php</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">,
or contact the Division of Coastal Resources (401-782-4587) or the Division of Marine Fisheries (401-423-1920).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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