[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 7, Volume 15]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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]