Each year, subject to the availability of funds, NOAA publishes its Coral Reef Conservation Grant programme Funding Guidance, as authorised by the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, to solicit proposals for coral reef conservation activities. The Act authorises the Secretary of Commerce, through the NOAA administrator and subject to the availability of funds, to issue matching grants of financial assistance for broad-based coral reef conservation activities, consistent with the purposes of the Act.