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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

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Recovery Act Programs Administered by the Office of Justice Programs

The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has five component bureaus to aid in the implementation of the Recovery Act of 2009:

• The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
• The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
• The National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

BJA, OJJDP, and OVC play a significant role in implementing the various programs from the Recovery Act. To learn more about OJP programs and related Recovery Act funding, please refer to Table 1.

Table 1: OJP Programs Receiving Recovery Act Funding

Program Name	Total Funding Available	Description
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program	$2 billion	This formula program is based on population and violent crime statistics. Recovery Act funding through the program supports a broad range of activities to prevent and control crimes and improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) State Crime Victim Compensation Program	$47.5 million	This formula program supports State efforts to compensate crime victims.
VOCA Assistance Formula Grant Program	$47.5 million	This formula program supports State services to crime victims.
Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Formula Grant Program	$50 million	This formula program supports the national network of ICAC task forces. Recovery Act funding through this program is available for discretionary awards for research, training, and technical assistance programs.
Edward Byrne Competitive Grant Program	$120.75 million	Program categories include: Data-driven and evidence-based approaches, Neighborhood-based probation and parole, Mortgage fraud, Hiring civilian law enforcement, Enhancing forensic and crime scene investigations, Victim assistance, and Problem-solving courts.
Mentoring Programs	$97.5 million	Recovery Act funding through these programs supports local youth mentoring initiatives and national youth mentoring programs.
Research and Evaluation	$2.25 million	Recovery Act funding supports research on and evaluation of Recovery Act State and local law enforcement assistance.
Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program	$225 million	Recovery Act funding through this program supports construction or renovation of correctional facilities on tribal lands.
Assistance to Rural Law Enforcement To Combat Crime and Drugs	$123.75 million	The Recovery Act funding for these programs can be used to assist State and local law enforcement in rural States and rural areas in preventing and combating crime, especially drug-related crime. State and local law enforcement agencies include State and local prosecutors, parole, probation, and community corrections agencies.
Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity Stemming From the Southern Border of the United States	$29.7 million	These programs provide assistance and equipment to State and local law enforcement along the southern border and in other places identified as high-intensity drug trafficking areas. For these programs, the definition of State and local law enforcement agencies is the same as the definition used for Assistance to Rural Law Enforcement to Combat Crime and Drugs funding.
Crime Victims Competitive Grants	$5 million	Recovery Act funding can be used through these grants to support training, technical assistance, and demonstration projects that are national in scope.

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