(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. Upon request from the State agency and approval of the Service, the option at 2 CFR 200.307(b) may be allowed.
(b) Program income includes revenue from any of the following:
(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) Fees collected by the agency for delivering or providing hunter education, aquatic education, or other courses.
(6) Royalties and license fees for copyrighted material, patents, and inventions developed as a result of a grant.
(7) 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 any of the following:
(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 hunter education, aquatic education, or other classes. Incidental costs are small amounts and typically not essential to the training delivery. Materials purchased at cost by the student, separate from course fees, are incidental costs.
(4) Cooperative farming or grazing arrangements as described at § 80.98.
(5) Proceeds from the sale of real property, equipment, or supplies.
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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.
(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 in-kind 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 grant-funded habitat-management or facilities-construction project.
(2) Cost of publishing research results as a pamphlet or book for sale if the publication is incidental to a grant-funded research project.
(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 non-Federal 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 or methods that it wants to use in the project statement that it submits with each application for Federal assistance.
(b) Program income must be spent within the grant period and program in which it is earned and before requesting additional Federal funds for the activity for which the program income is earned.
(c) The three methods for applying program income to Federal and non-Federal outlays are in table 1 to § 80.123(c):
| Method
| Requirements for using method
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| (1) Deduction | (i) The agency must deduct the program income from total allowable costs to determine 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.
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| (2) Addition | (i) The agency must request the Regional Director's approval in the project statement.
(ii) The agency may add the program income to the Federal and non-Federal funds under the grant.
(iii) The agency must use the program income for the purposes of the grant and under the terms of the grant.
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| (3) Cost sharing or matching | (i) The agency must request the Regional Director's approval in the project statement.
(ii) The agency must explain in the project statement the expected program income, how the agency proposes to use the program income to satisfy matching requirements, how the agency will use program income earned in excess of required match, and the primary conservation or recreation objective sufficient to show program income as a secondary benefit.
(iii) If neither the agency's project statement nor the award indicates how program income in excess of matching requirements will be applied, the agency must use the deduction method. |
A State fish and wildlife agency must spend program income before requesting additional payments under an award. If the 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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(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.
(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.