The Grants Process

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The Grants Process for Amendments By Kathy
Cannon
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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Amendments
• Addressed in
• 43 CFR Part 12
• Section 12.70 Changes

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Certain types of post-award changes in budgets
  and projects require prior written approval of
  MMS

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• CONTACT THE CONTRACING OFFICER
• FOR CHANGES TO THE GRANT BY EMAIL OR REGULAR MAIL

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• TWO TYPES OF CHANGES
• BUDGET
• PROGRAMMATIC

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• GRANTEES and SUB-GRANTEES
• Permitted to re-budget within
• approved direct cost budget to
• meet unanticipated requirements
• May make limited program
• changes to the approved project

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• CHANGES
• TO THE BUDGET
• OF A GRANT

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Non-construction
• Grantees or sub-grantees
• shall obtain prior approval
• of MMS whenever any of
• the following changes are
• anticipated

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Non-Construction
• Additional funding
• Cumulative transfers among direct cost categories
  which exceed or are expected to exceed 10 of the
  current total approved budget
• Transfer of funds allotted for training
  allowances

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Construction
• Any budget revision
• which would result in
• the need for additional
• funds

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Combined Construction and Non-construction
• Any fund or budget transfer
• from non-construction to
• construction or vice versa

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES
• REQUIRING PREVIOUS
• APPROVAL

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Any revision of the scope
• or objectives of the
• project
• (with or without a change
• to the budget also)

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Extend the period
• of Availability of Funds

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Non-Construction
• Contracting out
• Sub-granting
• Obtaining services of a 3rd party to perform
  activities central to the grant

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• FOR ALL REVISIONS
• Include a
• narrative justification
• for the proposed revision

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• Sub-grantees provide a
• written request
• to the CIAP grantee

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Coastal Impact Assistance Program

• The End