Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service http:www.csrees.usda.gov

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National Council of University Research
Administrators (NCURA)Washington, DCNovember
3, 2008

• CAROL A. LANGGUTH
• Branch Chief
• Awards Management Branch
• Office of Extramural Programs

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Awards Management BranchMission Statement

• To support our customers with expertise and
  resources and to facilitate the Federal
  assistance process to promote agricultural
  programs in Research, Education, and Extension.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) COOPERATIVE
STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION
SERVICE OFFICE OF EXTRAMURAL PROGRAMS (OEP)
Vacant Head Secretary
Melia Woodard-Martin Administrative Officer
Shawn Bennett Senior Program Analyst
Financial Operations Branch Tonya Johnson
Branch Chief
Policy Oversight Branch Ellen Danus Branch
Chief
Awards Management Branch Carol Langguth Branch
Chief
Policy Section Erin Daly Section Leader
Oversight Section Edward Nwaba Section Leader
Section 2 Adriene Woodin Section Leader
Section 1 Susan Bowman Section Leader
Funds Management Section Wanda Edwards Section
Leader
Formula Section Brenda Barnett Acting Team
Leader
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AWARDS MANAGEMENT BRANCH
Branch Main Number 202-401-4986
DARLENE BROWN Specialist Phone
401-4189 dmbrown_at_csrees.usda.gov
GAIL MARTIN Specialist Phone
401-0327 gmartint_at_csrees.usda.gov
JEFF JACOBS Specialist Phone
690-5717 jjacobs_at_csrees.usda.gov
TRACEY ROY Specialist Phone [phone] troy_at_csrees
.usda.gov
JOSE BERNA Examiner Phone [phone] jberna_at_csrees
.usda.gov
ADAM ANDERSON Examiner Phone [phone] acanderson
_at_csrees.usda.gov
1994 Schools Facilities Revised 10/7/08
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Cooperative State Research, Education, and
Extension ServiceAwards Management Branch

AWARDS MANAGEMENT BRANCH
Carol Langguth, Branch Chief
202-401-5204
SECTION II Adriene Woodin, Section
Leader 202-401-4324
SECTION I Susan Bowman, Section
Leader 202-401-4324

• AgrAbility/Youth Farm Safety Education
  Certification Program
• Alaskan Native/Native Hawaiian Serving
• Biodiesel
• Canola/Hesperaloe
• Critical Issues
• Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program
• Higher Education Challenge
• Insular Areas
• Integrated Methyl Bromide
• Integrated Organic Transitions/Organic
  Agriculture Research and Extension
  Initiative
• Integrated Pest Management Centers
• Integrated Risk Avoidance Mitigation
• Integrated Water Quality
• IPM Expert Decision Support
• IR-4
• Pest Management Alternatives
• Pesticide Safety Education Program (PSEP)
• Regional Pest Management
• Renewable Resources

• - 1890 Building and Facilities
• - 1890 Capacity Building
• - Ag Risk Management
• Aquaculture Centers
• Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
• Biotech Risk Assessment
• Building and Facilities
• Citrus Tristeza
• Critical Ag Materials
• DOE Biomass
• Hispanic Serving Institutions
• - Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education
• - Integrated Crops at Risk
• Integrated Food Safety
• International SERD
  
  - Microbial Genome
  Seq.
• New Technologies for Agriculture Extension
  
  
• Potato Research
• Rangeland
• Rural Youth Development

Programs shared by Section I and
Section II Reimbursables, Operating, NRI,
Special Research Grants, SBIR Phase I and II,
SCRI, Graduate Fellowships, Federal Admin -
Res/Ext, Innovation Grants, Multicultural
Scholars, Community Foods, T-Star and Homeland
Security.
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Food, Conservation, and Energy Act (FCEA) of 2008

• What is the Farm Bill?
• A collection of laws establishing agriculture
  programs and their requirements, re-authorizing
  current programs, and revising current
  legislation
• Reconsidered and/or revised every four or so
  years
• Current programs extended through
• September 30, 2012

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• Highlight
• New agency/institute
• Re-authorized all programs through FY 2012
• Indirect cost cap of 22 pertains to all awards
• New Programs
• Broader Eligibility for Programs
• Hispanic Serving Agricultural Colleges and
  Universities (HSACU)
• National Research Initiative (NRI) being recast
  as Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
  (AFRI) component similar to Initiative for Future
  Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS)
• UDC eligibility for certain programs (SL 3(d) and
  HEP)

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• Creation of National Institute for Food
  Agriculture (NIFA)
• Roadmap for Agriculture Research, Education
  Extension
• REE Agencies current situation
• Budget administered by respective officers
• National Program Leaders coordinate activities
  with stakeholder input

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• National Institute for Food and Agriculture
  (NIFA)
• By October 1, 2009
• established set of 7 guiding principles to
  provide vision for
• the National Institute
• Advance Knowledge and Science
• Assure Relevancy and Responsiveness
• Promote Understanding and Appreciation of
  Science
• Utilize Protocols that Promote Best Science
• Promote Accessibility
• Ensure Transparency Accountability and
  Efficient Use of Resources
• Enhance Status of Food and Agriculture Science
  
• Federal Register Notice for stakeholder input
• Agency committee to look at structure,
  communication plan

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• NIFA (cont)
• CSREES budgetary authorities transferred to newly
  created National Institute for Food and
  Agriculture (NIFA)
• Roadmap will be developed of USDA research,
  extension, and education programs policy.
• NIFA Director-Political Appointment

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• New programs
• AFRI (previous NRI)
• (HSACUs) Hispanic Serving Agriculture Colleges
  and Universities
• Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Development
  Program
• Specialty Crop Research Initiative
• Biomass R D (joint with DOE) previously
  administrated by Rural Development

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• Hispanic-serving Agricultural Colleges and
  Universities
• Endowment
• Competitive research
• Competitive extension
• Competitive institutional capacity building
• Equity

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• Broader eligibility for some programs
• McIntire-Stennis-Formula Section
• 406 Programs Integrated
• - Hispanic Serving Association of Colleges and
  Universities (HSACUs)
• Smith Lever Section 3(d)
• -1890s
• -UDC

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• Secondary/ Post Secondary Education
• -Non-profits eligible
• -Now K-12
• Multicultural Alliance
• -1890s
• -1994s
• -HSIs
• -Alaska/Hawaiian
• -Insular 1862s

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FY 2008 Farm Bill (Cont)

• Smith Lever 3 (d)-Competitive
• except for Expanded Food and Nutrition
  Education Program (EFNEP)
• Children Youth and Families at Risk
• Federally Recognized Tribes Extension Program
• Pest Management
• Sustainable Agriculture
• AgrAbility Program
• New Technologies for Ag Extension

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Significant Grants Policy

• 22 indirect cost rate-all programs
• Regulations
• -7 CFR 3430 with subparts
• -Interim 60-day comment period
• -Separate subparts for each program
• -National Veterinary Medicine Service
  Act
  (NVMSA)(270 days form June 18, 2008)
• -Extension Regulation (7CFR 34xxs)
• Under comment period for Administrative
  Manual
• Research Regulation (7CFR 34xxs)
• Hatch
• Hatch MRF
• Animal Health

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Significant Grants Policy

• Reporting Requirements
• -CRIS unless another information collection is
  approved by OMB
• FY 2009 transition year reviewing program
  requirements

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Proposal Issues

• Work Months
• Human Subjects
• NEPA Requirements
• Project Director/Key Personnel
• Current and Pending Support
• Indirect Costs

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Policies and Procedures

• Electronic Award Notification - most awards
• Research Terms and Conditions July 2008
• -Agency Specific
• Financial Reports
• CRIS Reports
• Expiring Appropriations pay attention to 5 year
  award expiration date
• Research Misconduct under final review
• -report to OIG
• -misconduct_at_csrees.usda.gov

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Questions?

• Carol Langguth
• 202-401-5204
• Branch Chief,
• Awards Management Branch
• Office Extramural Programs