"designate it for" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase can be used when you are assigning something specific to a particular person. For example, "The mayor designated the new library for the townspeople to visit."
The Senate later restored the money but designated it for research on traumatic brain injury.
Others saw the skeletal tower as a New York City icon, and they prevailed in 1989 when the city designated it for preservation as an official landmark.
States using some or all of their money for housing have designated it for a wide variety of programs, like a small fund for low-interest loans to build housing in low-income neighborhoods, in Virginia, and Ohio's sweeping plan to demolish abandoned property.
Ms. Miller said that she and Mr. Owens learned of the theater's uncertain fate from Michael Perlman, a local preservationist who has rallied supporters in efforts to save the theater and recently got the preservation commission to consider designating it for protection.
In one described case, a mutation in the prolyl hydroxylase gene PHD2, which hydroxylates Hif-1 α and designates it for destruction, has been associated with congenital erythrocytosis and the development of a paraganglioma (Ladroue et al, 2008).
Although the Navy attempted to displace the Army from the island and designate it solely for naval use, U.S. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker divided the island equally between the military branches.
The punishment is rooted in Islamic legal traditions, known as hadiths, that designate it as the penalty for adultery.
Although the NHC is an agency of the United States, the World Meteorological Organization has designated it as Regional Specialized Meteorological Center for the North Atlantic and eastern Pacific, making it the central clearinghouse for all tropical cyclone forecasts and observations occurring in these areas.
In response, in December 2010, USFWS designated it a candidate for ESA protection.
