Federal Assistance Award Data System.

Federal Aid Coordinator or Federal Audit Clearinghouse

A facility is any establishment, structure, or structures under one ownership at one site. Facilities correspond to Activity Tag 1’s on the Performance Matrix.

Grants that have the objective “Facilities Construction, Renovation or Acquisition” will require a link to Facility Record(s). Grants that provide funding for the operation & maintenance of facilities DO NOT require a link to a Facilities Record. 

The facility record should be created and approved after the facility is constructed, renovated, or acquired and prior to the performance report. The performance data editor will link the facility record to the activity when completing the performance report. Refer to lesson 4c to learn how to attach a facility record to a performance report. 

For Boating Infrastructure Grants (BIG), Clean Vessel Act (CVA) Grants and Boating Access Grants, facilities constructed, acquired, or renovated (regardless of cost or useful life length) require a Facility Record in TRACS. 

For all other grant programs - except Boating Infrastructure Grants (BIG), Clean Vessel Act (CVA) Grants, and Boating Access Grants - a facility record is only required if it meets the “Capital Improvement” definition. Capital Improvement (50 CFR 80.2) means a structure that costs at least $25,000 to build, acquire, or install; or the alteration or repair of a structure or the replacement of a structural component, if it increases the structure's useful life by at least 10 years or its market value by at least $25,000. Facility improvements that do not meet the definitions above, may fall under the “facilities operations and maintenance” objective instead.

Federal Award Identification Number

Financial Assistance Interior Regulation.

The Federal Fair Housing Act, instituted in 1968, pertains to discrimination in the property sales, lending and renting arenas. This law prohibits discrimination based upon familial status, sex, national origin, religion, race, color, disability and military status.

Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System

Financial and Business Management  System - A functionality-driven SAP solution designed to incorporate the majority of the Department of Interior's financial management functions into one system, eliminating DOI and bureau-specific systems. 

An “agency” as defined at 5 U.S.C. 551(1) and further clarified by 5 U.S.C. 552(f).

An integrated computer based management system used to administer grant programs administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service, which was decommissioned in 2012.

The clearinghouse designated by OMB as the repository of record where non-Federal entities are required to transmit the information required by 2 CFR 200 subpart F.

Depending on the context, in either paragraph (1) or (2) of this definition:

(1)

(2)   The instrument setting forth the terms and conditions. The instrument is the grant agreement, cooperative agreement, other agreement for assistance covered in paragraph (2) of the definition of Federal financial assistance in this section, or the cost-reimbursement contract awarded under the Federal Acquisition Regulations.

(3)   Federal award does not include other contracts that a Federal agency uses to buy goods or services from a contractor or a contract to operate Federal Government owned, contractor operated facilities (GOCOs).

(4)   See also definitions of Federal financial assistance, grant agreement, and cooperative agreement.

The date the Federal award is signed by the authorized official of the Federal awarding agency.

The Federal agency that provides a Federal award directly to a non-Federal entity.

(1)   Assistance that non-Federal entities receive or administer in the form of:

(2)   For § 200.203 and subpart F of this part, Federal financial assistance also includes assistance that non-Federal entities receive or administer in the form of:

(3)   For § 200.216, Federal financial assistance includes assistance that non-Federal entities receive or administer in the form of:

(4)    Federal financial assistance does not include amounts received as reimbursement for services rendered to individuals as described in § 200.502(h).

For purposes of 200.330 or when used in connection with the acquisition or improvement of real property, equipment, or supplies under a Federal award, the dollar amount that is the product of the:

(1)   All Federal awards which are assigned a single Assistance Listings Number.

(2)   When no Assistance Listings Number is assigned, all Federal awards from the same agency made for the same purpose must be combined and considered one program.

(3)   Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2) of this definition, a cluster of programs. The types 

of clusters of programs are:

The official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is a daily (except federal holidays) publication. The final rules promulgated by a federal agency and published in the Federal Register are ultimately reorganized by topic or subject matter and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is updated annually.

The portion of the total project costs that are paid by Federal funds.

Is the least limited interest and most complete and absolute ownership in land. The interests most commonly acquired in the Office of Conservation Investment administered award programs are fee title, easement and leasehold.

Fee with exception to title or less than full fee is an ownership interest in land that excludes one or more interests in real property. Some examples are: a parcel with a power-line easement through it a parcel where one entity owns all interests except the mineral rights, or a parcel subject to a conservation easement.

Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 or Transparency Act - Public Law 109-282, as amended by section 6202(a) of Public Law 110-252 (31 U.S.C> 6101)

Federal Financial Report

A cost objective which has allocated to it both direct and indirect costs and, in the non-Federal entity's accumulation system, is one of the final accumulation points, such as a particular award, internal project, or other direct activity of a non-Federal entity.                                

When referencing a recipient's or subrecipient's use of funds under a Federal award, means orders placed for property and services, contracts and sub awards made, and similar transactions that require payment.

A type of grant or cooperative agreement under which the Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity provides a specific level of support without regard to actual costs incurred under the Federal award. This type of Federal award reduces some of the administrative burden and record-keeping requirements for both the non-Federal entity and Federal awarding agency or pass-through entity. Accountability is based primarily on performance and results. See §§ 200.102(c), 200.201(b), and 200.333.

Finding of No Significant Impact

The period of time when federal funding is available for obligation by the recipient.

The Funding Source represents the total approved federal cost of a grant that consists of one or more Projects in TRACS. Associating a grant funding source to a project statement in TRACS is completed by the Federal Approver. 

Fish and Wildlife Service a bureau of the Department of Interior.