Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program - Section VI

Section VI.1: Announcement and Award Dates
EPA anticipates notifying applicants who fail one or more of the threshold criteria or who are otherwise ineligible (e.g. excessive funding requests) within 15 working days of the Agency's decision. The Agency anticipates announcing selections under this competition by February 2005. EPA expects to provide written notification in February 2005 to applicants whose applications are eligible but are not selected for funding by Senior Agency management.

Section VI.2: Award Notices
Awards are not final until the successful applicants receive an official notice of award from EPA's Grants Administration Division (GAD). EPA will announce award recipients on the U.S. EPA Brownfields web site (www.epa.gov/brownfields). This information will be posted within 30 days after GAD issues a written offer of award to the recipient.

Pre-award costs are governed by 40 CFR 30.25(f) and 40 CFR 32.23, as appropriate. Until the award is final, successful applicants incure pre-award costs at their own risk.

Section VI.3: Administrative and National Policy Requirements
This announcement provides all of the instructions needed for preparing an application for funding under this announcement. Successful applicants will submit required forms and certifications after being notified of selection by EPA. Applicants may download applicable forms from the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/ogd/AppKit/application.htm.

Applicants must comply with the standard requirements, terms and conditions of EPA assistance agreements. Funded activities must be allowable under EPA statutory authority. All recipients must have a Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number on their formal SF424 applications. A DUNS number can be obtained by calling 1-866-705-5711. A DUNS number is not required for initial proposals.

Section VI.4: Reporting
Recipients will be required to submit quarterly progress reports and will have to participate in annual reviews of their projects with their U.S. EPA project officer. A project officer will be designated at the time of the award of this cooperative agreement; that project officer will work in partnership with the recipient.

Section VI.5: Intergovernmental Review
All applicants must be aware that, if their application is successful, formal requests for assistance and associated documentation may be subject to intergovernmental review under Executive Order 12372, "Intergovernmental Review of Federal Programs." Applicants should contact their state's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for further information. There is a list of these contacts at the following web site: http://whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/spoc.html.