North American Wetlands Conservation Act and Neotropical Migratory Brid Conservation Act January 2006

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U.S. GRANT ADMINISTRATION STANDARDS — JANUARY 2006 North American Wetlands Conservation Act and Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act Obligate funds means place an order, award a contract, award a grant, receive a service, or make a similar transaction during a given period that will require payment during the same or a future period. Old match means eligible matching in -kind contributions acquired or performed before the FWS receives a NAWCA proposal. Matching in -kind contributions are not eligible for a NMBCA proposal. Other authorized titleholder means any entity that holds an interest in real property acquired with grant or matching funds or as a matching in -kind contribution, but is not necessarily a "recipient" or "subrecipient." One example of an "other authorized titleholder" is a nonprofit organization that buys land and commits it as match for a NAWCA project, but retains ownership and continues to administer the land for the purposes of the project. Another example would be a nonprofit organization that received title to land acquired under a Grant Agreement as a FWS - transfer five years after the funding period. Partner is a group, agency, organization, or individual which participates in a specific NAWCA or NMBCA project as recipient, subrecipient or match provider. Pre - agreement costs means those project costs to be funded by Federal grant and/or matching funds, which are incurred after FWS receives the proposal and before it signs the Grant Agreement. Such costs are allowable only to the extent that they would have been allowable if incurred during the funding period. This term is synonymous with "pre -award costs ". Program income means gross income earned by the Recipient or subrecipient that is directly generated by the Grant Agreement or earned only as a result of the Grant Agreement. Program income may be generated by both the federally funded and match - funded portions of the award, but must be generated after the beginning of the funding period. Program income includes but is not limited to: income from recreational or other fees; income from the use, rental, or lease of any real or personal property; the sale of timber, firewood, hay, seed, wild rice, agricultural production, and other commodities; and the sale of specific quantities (but not the real property interests therein) of water, earth, gravel, oil, gas, and minerals; and the use or rental of personal or real property acquired under the Grant Agreement. Net program income is program income less the costs incident to the generation of the program income, provided these costs have not been: (a) charged to the Federal funds in the award; (b) charged to a matching cash contribution; or c) provided as a matching in -kind contribution. Project means a program of related undertakings necessary to fulfill a defined need consistent with the purposes of NAWCA or NMBCA and approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission or FWS Director, as applicable. Project Activity refers to any undertaking sponsored by grant funds or accomplished through a matching contribution. Project activities are defined in the application instructions for NAWCA and NMBCA grants. Proposal means all the documents that are submitted with, or pursuant to, a NAWCA or NMBCA grant application to the FWS. Real property means land, including land improvements, structures, and appurtenances such as trees, grass, and other plants growing on the land except crops. It does not include movable machinery and equipment. Real property valuation means the method used for determining market value of real property, generally a professional appraisal. Recipient means an entity that receives an award to carry out a project. The Recipient is the entire legal entity even if only a particular component of the entity is designated in the grant award document. Restore habitat means to return the quantity and quality of habitat to some previous condition, often some desirable historic baseline considered suitable and sufficient to support healthy and self - sustaining populations of fish and wildlife. 31