• I. General
  Information
• II. Preaward
  Requirements
• III. Postaward
  Requirements
• IV. Organization
  Structure
• 
  V. Appendices

Chapters:

• 3.1 Payments
  • Using the Grant Payment Request System
  • Payment Transaction Timeline
  • Understanding the Withholding of Funds
  • Draw Only What is Needed
  • Managing Interest Earned
  • Understanding the Cash Management Improvement Act
    of 1990
  • How to Manage Interest Income
• 3.2 Availability of Funds
  • Availability of Funds
  • Obligation of Funds
  • Expenditure of Funds
  • Criteria for Award Extension
  • Project Extension Guidance
• 3.3 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
• 3.4 Program Income
  • Introduction
  • Accounting Processes for Program Income
  • Examples of Program Income
  • Procedures for Recovery of Costs Incurred
• 3.5 Adjustments to Awards
  • Grant Adjustment Notice
  • Prior Approval of Certain Costs
  • Reprogramming of Funds
• 3.6 Costs Requiring Prior Approval
  • Introduction
  • Responsibility for Prior Approval
  • Procedures for Requesting Prior Approval
  • Listing of Costs Requiring Prior Approval
• 3.7 Property Standards
  • General Principles for Property Acquisition and Management
  • Screening and Property Management Systems
  • Equipment Ownership, Use, Management, and Disposition
  • Equipment and Supplies Acquired With Grant Program Funds
  • Federal Equipment
  • Replacement of Equipment
  • Supplies
  • Real Property Acquired With Federal Funds
  • Retention of Property Records
  • Intangible Property
  • Copyrights
  • Data Produced Under A Federal Award
  • Patents, Patent Rights, and Inventions
• 3.8 Procurement under Awards of Federal Assistance
  • Procurement Standards—
    General Guidance
  • OJP Construction Requirements
• 3.9 Allowable Costs
  • Introduction
  • Compensation for Personal Services
  • Conferences and Workshops
  • Travel
  • Project Site
  • Printing
  • Publication
  • Duplication
  • Other Allowable Costs
• 3.10 Conference Approval, Planning, and Reporting
  • Introduction
  • Policy Overview
  • Definitions
  • No Prior Approval Required
  • Prior Approval Required
  • Event Planning Guidance
  • Conference Cost Categories
  • Post Event Reporting
  • FAQs
  • Resources
• 3.11 Indirect Costs
  • Introduction
  • Federal Indirect Cost Rate—Negotiated Agreements
  • Establishment of Indirect Cost Rates
  • Indirect Cost Distribution Bases
  • Cost Allocation Plans—Central Support Services
  • Lobbying Costs and the Indirect Cost Pool
  • No Approved Plan
  • Approval of Indirect Cost Rates for Subrecipients
• 3.12 OJP's Confidential Funds
  • Introduction
  • Approval Authorities
  • Confidential Funds Certification
  • Written Procedures
  • Informant Files
  • Regional Information Sharing Systems (RISS) Program
  • Accounting and Control Procedures
• 3.13 Unallowable Costs
  • Introduction
  • Unallowable Cost Categories
• 3.14 Subrecipient Management and Monitoring
  • Introduction
  • Subrecipient Monitoring
  • Best Practices
• 3.15 Reporting Requirements
  • Introduction
  • SF-425 Federal Financial Reports
  • Progress/Program Reports
  • Government Performance and Results Act
  • Reports Required under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
• 3.16 Retention and Access Requirements for
  Records
  • Retention of Records
• 3.17 Remedies for Noncompliance
  • Introduction
  • Termination
  • Hearings and Appeals
  • Effects of Suspension and Termination
• 3.18 Closeout
  • Introduction
  • First Step
  • Closeout of Discretionary/
    Categorical and Block/Formula Awards
  • Refund of Federal Grant Monies and/or Program Income
  • Failure to Remit Funds Owed
• 3.19 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 2014)
  • Audit of Subrecipients
  • Technical Assistance
  • Full-Scope Auditing
  • Commercial (For-Profit) Organizations
  • Failure to Comply
  • Office of Inspector General Regional Offices
• 3.20 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
• 3.21 Payment Programs
  • Introduction
  • Bulletproof Vest Partnership
  • State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
  • Northern Border Prosecution Initiative and Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative

3.9 Allowable Costs

Publication

Guidance for publication costs is set out in 2 C.F.R. ?? 200.461. To be considered allowable, publication costs must be incurred for work done according to a process that the recipient has described in writing. This process should include writing, editing, and preparing the illustrated material (including videos). Alternatively, it may include only the internal printing requirements from the recipients/subrecipients in accordance with the terms of the project.

• DOJ has authorized any recipient or subrecipient employee to make or have made by any means available to him or her, without regard to the journal copyright and without royalty, a single copy of any such article for his or her own use.

Recipients are encouraged to make the results and accomplishments of their activities available to the public. Recipients publicizing project activities and results must adhere to the following parameters:

• Responsibility for the direction of the project activity should not be ascribed to the grant-making component.
• The publication must include the following statement: “The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice or grant-making component.”
• The publication must not convey DOJ’s official recognition or endorsement of the recipient’s project simply based on having received funding.
• Recipients may file a separate application with the grant-making component requesting official recognition.
• In all materials publicizing or resulting from award activities, you must acknowledge awarding agency assistance. An acknowledgement of support shall be made through use of the following or comparable footnote:
• “This project was supported by Award No.XXXXX awarded by the (name of specific office/bureau), Department of Justice.”
• You and any subrecipient are expected to publish or otherwise make widely available to the public, as requested by the awarding agency, the results of work conducted or produced under an award.
• All publication and distribution agreements with a publisher must include provisions giving the Federal Government a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use and to authorize others to use the publication for Federal Government purposes (see Chapter 3.7). The agreements with a publisher should contain information on the awarding agency requirements.
• Unless otherwise specified in the award, recipients/subrecipients may copyright any books, publications, films, or other copyrightable material developed or purchased as a result of award activities. Copyrighted material will be subject to the same provisions giving the Federal Government a license as described above.
• You shall submit a publication and distribution plan to the awarding agency before materials developed under an award are commercially published or distributed.
• The plan must include a description of the materials, the rationale for commercial publication and distribution, the criteria to be used in the selection of a publisher, and???to assure reasonable competition???the identification of firms that will be approached.
• Recipients/subrecipients must obtain prior agency approval of this plan for publishing project activities and results when it uses Federal funds to pay for the publication.