Team Rubicon Heavy Equipment Safety Training Program

$50,000 per year for three years to establish a cooperative agreement with the National Wildlife Refuge System to create a heavy equipment operations safety training program. This program will focus on the development of safety instructors and their ability to deliver the USFWS heavy equipment safety training program to its members. This award is entered into under the authority of Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development and implementation of programs for the benefit of fish and wildlife species and their habitat (16 U.S.C. 661 and 742 et seq.), Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978, as amended (16 U.S.C. 753). Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531-1544, 87 Stat. 884).