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• General
  Information
• Preaward
  Requirements
• Postaward
  Requirements
• Organization
  Structure
• 
  Appendices

Chapters:

• Payments
  • Using the Grant Payment Request System
  • Payment Transaction Timeline
  • Understanding the Withholding of Funds
  • Drawing Only What is Needed
  • Managing Interest Earned
  • Understanding the Cash Management Improvement Act
    of 1990
  • How to Manage Interest Income
• Period of Availability of Funds
  • Availability of Awards
  • Obligation of Funds
  • Expenditure of Funds
  • Criteria for Award Extension
• Matching or Cost Sharing Requirements
  • Match Requirements
  • Types of Match
  • Source and Type of Funds
  • Timing of Matching Contributions
  • Records for Match
  • Waiver of Match
• Program Income
  • Introduction
  • Accounting Processes for Program Income
  • Examples of Program Income
  • Procedures for Recovery of Costs Incurred
• Adjustments to Awards
  • Grant Adjustment Notice
  • Incurring of Certain Costs for Which Program Office Approval is Required
  • Reprogramming of Funds
• Costs Requiring Prior Approval
  • Introduction
  • Responsibility for Prior Approval
  • Procedures for Requesting Prior Approval
  • Listing of Costs Requiring Prior Approval
• Property and Equipment
  • Acquisition of Property and Equipment
  • Screening
  • Loss, Damage, or Theft of Equipment
  • Equipment Acquired With Crime Control Act Block/Formula Funds
  • Equipment Acquired With Juvenile Justice Act Formula and Victims of Crime Act Assistance (Formula) Funds
  • Equipment and Nonexpendable Personal Property Acquired With Discretionary Funds
  • Real Property Acquired With Formula Funds
  • Real Property Acquired With Discretionary Funds
  • Federal Equipment
  • Replacement of Property (Equipment and Nonexpendable Personal Property)
  • Retention of Property Records
  • Supplies
  • Copyrights
  • Patents, Patent Rights, and Inventions
• Procurement under
  Awards of Federal Assistance
  • Procurement Standards—
    General Guidance
  • Construction Requirements
• Allowable Costs
  • Introduction
  • Compensation for Personal Services
  • Conferences and Workshops
  • Travel
  • Project Site
  • Printing
  • Publication
  • Duplication
  • Other Allowable Costs
• Food and Beverage
  • Introduction
  • Allowability of Food and Beverage Costs
  • Minimization of Costs of Meals and Refreshments
  • Reporting Requirements
• Indirect Costs
  • Introduction
  • Federal Indirect Cost Rate—Negotiated Agreements
  • No Approved Plan
  • Establishment of Indirect Cost Rates
  • Indirect Cost Distribution Bases
  • Cost Allocation Plans—Central Support Services
  • Lobbying Costs and the Indirect Cost Pool
  • Approval of Indirect Cost Rates for Subrecipients
• Confidential Funds
  • Introduction
  • Approval Authorities
  • Confidential Funds Certification
  • Written Procedures
  • Informant Files
  • Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program
  • Accounting and Control Procedures
• Unallowable Costs
  • Introduction
  • Unallowable Cost Categories
• Subrecipient Monitoring
  • Introduction
  • Subrecipient Monitoring
  • Best Practices
• Reporting Requirements
  • Introduction
  • SF-425 Federal Financial Reports
  • Progress/Program Reports
  • Reports Required under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  • Government Performance and Results Act
  • Reports Required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
• Retention and Access Requirements for
  Records
  • Retention of Records
  • Maintenance of Records
  • Access to Records
• Suspension or
  Termination for Convenience
  • Provisions of the Grant
  • Suspension or Termination of the Grant
  • Termination of Grant and Cooperative Agreement Awards by the Award Recipient
• Closeout
  • First Steps
  • Closeout of Discretionary/
    Categorical and Block/Formula Awards
  • Refund of Federal Grant Monies and/or Program Income
  • Failure to Remit Funds Owed
• Audit Requirements
  • Audit Threshold
  • Audit Objectives
  • Audit Reporting Requirements
  • Audit Submission Requirements
  • Submission of Audit Reports
  • Audit Report Confirmation Requests
  • Due Dates for Audit Reports
  • Audit Compliance
  • Resolution of Audit Reports
  • Top 10 Audit Findings (Fiscal Year 2009)
  • Audit of Subrecipients
  • Technical Assistance
  • Full-Scope Auditing
  • Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations
  • Failure to Comply
  • Office of Inspector General Regional Offices
• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
  of 2009
  • Background
  • Recovery Act Programs Administered by the Office of Justice Programs
  • Supplanting Rules within the Recovery Act Programs
  • Special Conditions
  • Reporting Requirements for the Recovery Act
  • Government-Wide Data Reporting Requirements
  • Technical Requirements
  • Delegation of Reporting Requirements under the Recovery Act
  • Key Reporting Time Frames
  • Data Quality Requirements
• Grant Fraud, Waste,
  and Abuse
  • Introduction
  • Detection of Grant Fraud
  • Penalties of Grant Fraud
  • Fraud Indicators
  • Common Grant Fraud Schemes
  • Ways to Reduce the Risk of Fraud
• Payment Programs
  • Introduction
  • Bulletproof Vest Partnership
  • State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
  • Northern Border Prosecution Initiative and Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative

Property and Equipment

Federal Equipment

When you or your subrecipient is provided federally owned equipment, the following requirements apply:

• Title remains vested in the Federal Government.
• You or your subrecipients must manage the equipment in accordance with the awarding agency’s rules and procedures and submit an annual inventory listing.
• When the equipment is no longer needed, you or your subrecipient must request disposition instructions from the awarding agency.

Office of Justice Programs
810 Seventh Street, NW · Washington, DC 20531