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PART 80—ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, PITTMANROBERTSON WILDLIFE RESTORATION AND DINGELLJOHNSON SPORT FISH
RESTORATION ACTS
Subpart I—Program Income
Contents
§80.120 What is program income?
§80.121 May an agency earn program income?
§80.122 May an agency deduct the costs of generating program income from gross income?
§80.123 How may an agency use program income?
§80.124 How may an agency use unexpended program income?
§80.125 How must an agency treat income that it earns after the grant period?
§80.126 How must an agency treat income earned by a subgrantee after the grant period?
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§80.120 What is program income?
(a) Program income is gross income received by the grantee or subgrantee and earned only as a result of the grant
during the grant period.
(b) Program income includes revenue from:
(1) Services performed under a grant;
(2) Use or rental of real or personal property acquired, constructed, or managed with grant funds;
(3) Payments by concessioners or contractors under an arrangement with the agency or subgrantee to provide a service
in support of grant objectives on real property acquired, constructed, or managed with grant funds;
(4) Sale of items produced under a grant;
(5) Royalties and license fees for copyrighted material, patents, and inventions developed as a result of a grant; or
(6) Sale of a product of mining, drilling, forestry, or agriculture during the period of a grant that supports the:
(i) Mining, drilling, forestry, or agriculture; or
(ii) Acquisition of the land on which these activities occurred.
(c) Program income does not include:
(1) Interest on grant funds, rebates, credits, discounts, or refunds;
(2) Sales receipts retained by concessioners or contractors under an arrangement with the agency to provide a service
in support of grant objectives on real property acquired, constructed, or managed with grant funds;
(3) Cash received by the agency or by volunteer instructors to cover incidental costs of a class for hunter or aquatic
resource education;
(4) Cooperative farming or grazing arrangements as described at §80.98; or
(5) Proceeds from the sale of real property.
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§80.121 May an agency earn program income?
A State fish and wildlife agency may earn income from activities incidental to the grant purposes as long as producing
income is not a primary purpose. The agency must account for income received from these activities in the project records
and dispose of it according to the terms of the grant.
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§80.122 May an agency deduct the costs of generating program income from gross income?
(a) A State fish and wildlife agency may deduct the costs of generating program income from gross income when it
calculates program income as long as the agency does not:
(1) Pay these costs with:
(i) Federal or matching cash under a Federal grant; or
(ii) Federal cash unrelated to a grant.
(2) Cover these costs by accepting:
(i) Matching inkind contributions for a Federal grant; or
(ii) Donations of services, personal property, or real property unrelated to a Federal grant.
(b) Examples of costs of generating program income that may qualify for deduction from gross income if they are
consistent with paragraph (a) of this section are:
(1) Cost of estimating the amount of commercially acceptable timber in a forest and marking it for harvest if the
commercial harvest is incidental to a grantfunded habitatmanagement or facilitiesconstruction project.
(2) Cost of publishing research results as a pamphlet or book for sale if the publication is incidental to a grantfunded
research project.
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§80.123 How may an agency use program income?
(a) A State fish and wildlife agency may choose any of the three methods listed in paragraph (b) of this section for
applying program income to Federal and nonFederal outlays. The agency may also use a combination of these methods.
The method or methods that the agency chooses will apply to the program income that it earns during the grant period and to
the program income that any subgrantee earns during the grant period. The agency must indicate the method that it wants to
use in the project statement that it submits with each application for Federal assistance.
(b) The three methods for applying program income to Federal and nonFederal outlays are in the following table:
Method
Requirements for using the method
(1)
(i) The agency must deduct the program income from total allowable costs to determine
Deduction the net allowable costs.
(ii) The agency must use program income for current costs under the grant unless the
Regional Director authorizes otherwise.
(iii) If the agency does not indicate the method that it wants to use in the project
statement, then it must use the deduction method.
(2)
(i) The agency may add the program income to the Federal and matching funds under
Addition the grant.
(ii) The agency must use the program income for the purposes of the grant and under
the terms of the grant.
(3)
(i) The agency must request the Regional Director's approval in the project statement.
Matching
(ii) The agency must explain in the project statement how the agency proposes to use
the program income, the expected results, and why it is essential to use program
income as match.
(iii) The Regional Director may approve the use of the matching method if the
requirements of paragraph (c) of this section are met.
(c) The Regional Director may approve the use of the matching method if the proposed use of the program income
would:
(1) Be consistent with the intent of the applicable Act or Acts; and
(2) Result in at least one of the following:
(i) The agency substitutes program income for at least some of the match that it would otherwise have to provide, and
then uses this saved match for other fish or wildliferelated projects;
(ii) The agency substitutes program income for at least some of the apportioned Federal funds, and then uses the saved
Federal funds for additional eligible activities under the program; or
(iii) A net benefit to the program.
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§80.124 How may an agency use unexpended program income?
If a State fish and wildlife agency has unexpended program income on its final Federal financial report, it may use the
income under a subsequent grant for any activity eligible for funding in the grant program that generated the income.
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§80.125 How must an agency treat income that it earns after the grant period?
(a) The State fish and wildlife agency must treat program income that it earns after the grant period as either:
(1) License revenue for the administration of the agency; or
(2) Additional funding for purposes consistent with the grant or the program.
(b) The agency must indicate its choice of one of the alternatives in paragraph (a) of this section in the project
statement that the agency submits with each application for Federal assistance. If the agency does not record its choice in
the project statement, the agency must treat the income earned after the grant period as license revenue.
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§80.126 How must an agency treat income earned by a subgrantee after the grant period?
(a) The State fish and wildlife agency must treat income earned by a subgrantee after the grant period as:
(1) License revenue for the administration of the agency;
(2) Additional funding for purposes consistent with the grant or the program; or
(3) Income subject only to the terms of the subgrant agreement and any subsequent contractual agreements between
the agency and the subgrantee.
(b) The agency must indicate its choice of one of the above alternatives in the project statement that it submits with
each application for Federal assistance. If the agency does not indicate its choice in the project statement, the subgrantee
does not have to account for any income that it earns after the grant period unless required to do so in the subgrant
agreement or in any subsequent contractual agreement.
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