This two-and-a-half mile section of the river cautiously opened to the public in 2011 as part of a pilot programme.
However, the department now says this pilot programme will start only in one area in April - Ashton-under-Lyne.
The PEER Pilot Programme is Investigating the Effect of the Deposit of Author Manuscripts on the Ecology of European Research and Publishng.
The Scottish Borders was one of the parts of Scotland which took part in a pilot programme of free school meals in primaries.
In 2007 George Bush announced a pilot programme to allow up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to trundle through the United States, and vice versa.
After a successful pilot programme last year, there will also be a series of late-night events in galleries across the city, involving artists, DJs, poets and comedians.
The introduction of the qualifications for younger students comes half-way though a pilot programme which had produced such positive feedback that the Institute decided to launch the new studies this autumn.
The Department of Agriculture has also introduced a pilot programme in Nebraska and Iowa for revenue insurance, which, unlike the old crop insurance, guarantees farmers against falling prices as well as lost crops.
Meanwhile, health minister Andy Burnham has announced the start of a one-year pilot programme using the appeal of football to raise awareness of lung, bowel and prostate cancers in men aged 55 and over.
The Meeting reviewed the early stages of the GDI pilot programme which has delivered a number of proposals outlining potential projects which could be developed to test the applicability of GDI-certified management plans to specific areas.
Last year the Treasury's newly created Office of Financial Education launched a pilot programme, called First Accounts and operating in 26 states, that aims to bring 35, 000 people into the banking system for the first time.
As part of the National Literacy Strategy, whose activities focus particularly on women, the DPI implemented a pilot programme with UNESCO support through the LIFE initiative and financial support from the UNESCO Capacity Development for Education for All programme (Cap-EFA Morocco 2006-2008).
Lately, his Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford has been the model for an intriguing pilot programme called Innovation Corps (or I-Corps for short) which seeks to turn the traditional Silicon Valley start-up model on its head, and thereby reduce the woeful failure rate of new ventures.
LEED, though focused on large commercial buildings, launched a pilot programme for new houses in 2005. (Multi-family condos are already covered by the commercial programme, while retrofitted existing homes are as yet beyond LEED's scope.) LEED For Homes is now in a period of public comment, and should be fully launched by early next year.
"This is why Africa has been selected to pilot this Programme, which aims at developing the expertise and know-how necessary to effectively implement the 2005 Convention over the medium term through the elaboration of targeted policies that can strengthen the cultural and creative industries at the national level, " she adds.
Kenya has observer status on the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, but is not a pilot country of the programme.
The Pilot Capacity-Building Programme of the 2005 Convention will train 32 African experts this year on specific technical policy-making skills and approaches necessary for strengthening the cultural sector and effectively implementing the2005 Convention at the national level.
This week's announcement is the latest update on the pledge to "investigate measures to help with fuel costs in remote rural areas, starting with pilot schemes" in the coalition's Programme for Government of May 2010.
In an interview with the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, the assistant commissioner said that earlier pilot schemes in Shropshire and Cambridge were being extended to Wales.
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The ebooks programme, which began in 2011 as a pilot project for the school of psychology, the university said it hopes to have all degree subjects included within the next two years.
This has not stopped speculation that it will be Chen Long, a fighter pilot who has been to Russia to train with the cosmonaut programme.
One of the first pilot schemes to be financed by the fund is a residential programme for primary and secondary teachers aimed at deepening their subject knowledge.
The pilot scheme is part of the government's Care Matters reform programme and aims to give young people support to find training and employment opportunities to move on to independence.
In Afghanistan in 2009, UNESCO conducted a pilot for directly implementing the Enhancement of Literacy in Afghanistan (ELA) programme with the government, and also with NGOs on some components, such as skills training.
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