Read the following passage carefully:
Under the Mountain Hydrological Ecosystem Protection Act, state municipal boards governing high-altitude tourism zones are mandated to cap seasonal hotel construction permits whenever glacier melt rates exceed historic baseline decadal averages by more than twelve percent. To offset revenue losses suffered by municipal bodies due to permit caps, the central treasury automatically releases ecological stewardship grants, provided that the municipal authority has implemented a localized greywater recycling system covering at least seventy percent of commercial hospitality establishments. However, municipal authorities that accept these central stewardship grants are statutorily prohibited from levying local environmental surcharges on trekking agencies and tour operators. Recent administrative audits revealed that while several high-altitude districts successfully met the greywater recycling threshold and received central grants, total regional revenue dedicated to local watershed restoration decreased. Analysts attribute this revenue decline to the loss of local environmental surcharges, which historically generated higher aggregate funds for conservation than the fixed central stewardship grants.
Based strictly on the passage above, evaluate the following statement:
A municipal authority operating in a high-altitude tourism zone that receives central ecological stewardship grants is legally permitted to finance its watershed restoration projects by imposing environmental surcharges on local tour operators.
Is the statement above True or False?
Cevap: Cevap