[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3015.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                         CHAPTER XXX--OFFICE OF
                      THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER,
                        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3015_UNIFORM FEDERAL ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 3015.2  Applicability.

    (a) Grants and cooperative agreements. This part applies to USDA 
grants and cooperative agreements. For each substantive provision in 
this part, either the words of the provision itself or other words in 
the same subpart tell whether the provision applies to subgrants. 
Exemptions to this part may be applicable to certain kinds of 
recipients. (See paragraph (d) of this section.)
    (b) Terminology applicable to this part. This part's substantive 
rules are the same for grants and cooperative agreements. Many of the 
rules are also the same for subgrants. Therefore, certain simplified 
terminology is used in the text. Specifically in all portions of this 
part:
    (1) Each provision that applies to grants also applies to 
cooperative agreements, even though the latter term does not appear in 
the provisions.
    (2) Each provision that applies to recipients of grants applies to 
recipients of cooperative agreements, even though the latter term does 
not appear in the provision.
    (3) The term recipient refers equally to recipients of grants and 
recipients of cooperative agreements.
    (4) The term awarding agency refers equally to a USDA agency that 
awards a grant and to one that awards a cooperative agreement.
    (5) The term subgrant refers equally to certain awards under grants 
and to the same kinds of awards under cooperative agreements.
    (c) Public institutions of higher education and hospitals. Grants, 
cooperative agreements and subgrants awarded to institutions of higher 
education and hospitals operated by a government are subject only to the 
provisions of this part that apply to non-governmental organizations.
    (d) Recipients to which this part does not automatically apply. This 
part does not automatically apply to the kinds of recipients listed 
below unless other conditions set forth in the grant, cooperative 
agreement, subgrant, or specific subpart in this part make all or 
specified portions apply:
    (1) Foreign governments or organizations,
    (2) International organizations, such as the United Nations,
    (3) Agencies or instrumentalities of the Federal government,
    (4) Individuals,
    (5) State and local governments, and
    (6) Institutions of higher education, hospitals and other non-profit 
organizations.
    (e) Collaborative arrangements. (1) Where permitted by the terms of 
the award, a recipient may enter into collaborative arrangements with 
other organizations to jointly carry out activities with grant or 
cooperative agreement funds. In this kind of situation,

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the arrangement between the recipient and each collaborating 
organization is subject to the rules in this part that apply to 
subgrants awarded by the recipients. (See the example shown in Sec. 
3015.195.)
    (2) This paragraph (e) does not apply to arrangements where the 
organizations receive an award jointly. In this case, they are not a 
recipient and subrecipient but, as the award notice states, joint 
recipients.

[46 FR 55639, Nov. 10, 1981, as amended at 53 FR 8044, Mar. 11, 1988; 65 
FR 49480, Aug. 14, 2000]