[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: 7CFR3400.7]

[Page 305-306]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3400_SPECIAL RESEARCH GRANTS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 3400.7  Use of funds; changes.

    (a) Delegation of fiscal responsibility. The grantee may not 
delegate or transfer in whole or in part, to another person, 
institution, or organization the responsibility for use or expenditure 
of grant funds.
    (b) Change in project plans. (1) The permissible changes by the 
grantee, principal investigator(s), or other key project personnel in 
the approved research project grant shall be limited to changes in 
methodology, techniques, or

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other aspects of the project to expedite achievement of the projects' 
approved goals. If the grantee or the principal investigator(s) is 
uncertain as to whether a change complies with this provision, the 
question must be referred to the Administrator for a final 
determination.
    (2) Changes in approved goals, or objectives, shall be requested by 
the grantee and approved in writing by the Department prior to effecting 
such changes. In no event shall requests for such changes be approved 
which are outside the scope of the original approved project.
    (3) Changes in approved project leadership or the replacement or 
reassignment of other key project personnel shall be requested by the 
grantee and approved in writing by the Department prior to effecting 
such changes.
    (4) Transfers of actual performance of the substantive programmatic 
work in whole or in part and provisions for payment of funds, whether or 
not Federal funds are involved, shall be requested by the grantee and 
approved in writing by the Department prior to effecting such changes, 
except as may be allowed in the terms and conditions of the grant award.
    (c) Changes in project period. The project period determined 
pursuant to Sec. 3400.5(b) may be extended by the Administrator without 
additional financial support for such additional period(s) as the 
Administrator determines may be necessary to complete or fulfill the 
purposes of an approved project. Any extension, when combined with the 
originally approved or amended project period shall not exceed three (3) 
years (the limitation established by statute) and shall be further 
conditioned upon prior request by the grantee and approval in writing by 
the Department, unless prescribed otherwise in the terms and conditions 
of a grant award.
    (d) Changes in approved budget. The terms and conditions of a grant 
will prescribe circumstances under which written Departmental approval 
will be requested and obtained prior to instituting changes in an 
approved budget.

[56 FR 58147, Nov 15, 1991, as amended at 64 FR 34103, June 24, 1999]