Department of Natural Resources

Activities designed to restore, conserve, manage, or enhance sport fish populations; the public use and benefits from these resources; and activities that provide boat access to public waters. Sport fisheries research and management activities; boating access development and maintenance; aquatic resource education activities; lake construction and maintenance; land acquisition; technical assistance; planning; habitat enhancement; administration; coordination; and hatchery construction are eligible under the Act.

50CFR80

Federal pass through

44 Illinois Administration Code 7000 Subtitle F Part 7000 Grant Accountability and Transparency Act

To restore, conserve, manage, or enhance sport fish populations.

Yes

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Government Organizations; Education Organizations;

Participation is limited to State, District of Columbia, Commonwealth, or Territorial agencies with lead management responsibility for fish and wildlife resources in the United States of America. States, Commonwealths, and Territories must pass laws (assent legislation) for the conservation of fish and wildlife. The law(s) must require that revenue from hunting and fishing licenses be only used for the administration of the State fish and wildlife agency. If you are uncertain of your eligibility, please contact your Regional WSFR Office (see Section G, Federal Awarding Agency Contacts).

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Formula Grants

Quality of Natural, Cultural, and Environmental Resources

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submissions via the State Of Illinois Grant Management System https://il.amplifund.com/ Email kathy.justison@illinois.gov

We will accept State agency applications via GrantSolutions any time after publication of the NOFO and prior to the application deadline. We determine that applications are complete, substantial, and eligible. Approval of funding is at the discretion of the Service Director or his/her designee. Project selection is a three-step process: application acceptance, applicant risk assessment, and award notification. The Regional WSFR Office will notify State applicants of the award and the process needed to receive a grant, including satisfactory completion of compliance requirements. Prior to award, the program will review any applicant statement regarding potential overlap or duplication between the project to be funded and any other funded or proposed project in terms of activities, funding, or time commitment of key personnel. Depending on the circumstances, the program may request modification to the application, other pending applications, or an active award, as needed to eliminate any duplication of effort, or the FWS may choose not to fund the selected project. The program may not make a Federal award to an applicant that has not completed the SAM.gov registration. If an applicant selected for funding has not completed their SAM.gov registration by the time the Service is ready to make an award, the program may determine that the applicant is not qualified to receive an award. The program can use that determination as a basis for making an award to another applicant. Prior to award, the program will evaluate the risk posed by applicants as required in 2 CFR 200.206. Programs document applicant risk evaluations using the Service’s “Financial Assistance Recipient Risk Assessment” form. Prior to approving awards for Federal funding in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold (currently $250,000), the Service is required to review and consider any information about or from the applicant found in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System. The Service will consider this information when completing the risk review. The Service uses the results of the risk evaluation to establish monitoring plans, recipient reporting frequency requirements, and to determine if one or more of the specific award conditions in 2 CFR 200.208 should be applied the award.

The Regional WSFR Office will notify State applicants of the funding approval and the process needed to receive a grant, including approval of pre-award costs and satisfactory completion of compliance requirements. When these requirements are met, the Regional WSFR Office will send a letter to your agency detailing the terms and conditions of the award. Notice of funding approval is not an approval of pre-award costs.

Due Date for Applications: July - August 2023

120 days

Non-competitive opportunity

Renewals are dependent on USFWS approval.

Does the program have a cost sharing or matching requirement? Yes States may be paid up to 75 percent of project costs through the program. You must provide at least 25 percent of the project costs from a non-Federal source. The non-Federal share may come from license fees. Matching and cost-share requirements are discussed in 50 CFR 80.84, 50 CFR 80.85, and 2 CFR 200.306. According to 50 CFR 80.84, the Regional Director must waive the first $200,000 of match required by each program or subprogram that provides funds for a project in a grant awarded to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. You may meet your minimum required cost share or match through contributions from a third party. A third party is any individual or organization other than the State applicant, such as a partner or subrecipient. Match provided must be necessary and reasonable for accomplishing the proposed project objective(s). As the primary State recipient, you are responsible for the full amount of the non-Federal match proposed, including any amount provided by one or more third parties as listed on the Standard Form 424, Application for Federal Assistance.

Funding is used internally within IDNR to install and replace boat launches on IDNR sites.

Financial Reports All recipients must use the SF-425, “Federal Financial Report” form for financial reporting. At a minimum, all recipients must submit a final financial report. Final reports are due no later than 120 calendar days after the award period of performance end date or termination date. For awards with periods of performance longer than 12 months, recipients are required to submit interim financial reports on the frequency established in the Notice of Award. The only exception to the interim financial reporting requirement is if the recipient is required to use the SF 270/271 to request payment and requests payment at least once annually through the entire award period of performance. We will describe all financial reporting requirements in the Notice of Award. Performance Reports Performance reports must contain a comparison of actual accomplishments with the established goals and objectives of the award; a description of reasons why established goals were not met, if appropriate; and any other pertinent information relevant to the project results. Final reports are due no later than120 calendar days after the award period of performance end date or termination date. For awards with periods of performance longer than 12 months, recipients are required to submit?interim?performance reports on the frequency established in the Notice of Award. Recipients must submit all performance reports into TRACS (unless exempt) and GrantSolutions as described in the Notice of Award terms and conditions. Non-exempt recipients should first complete their performance reports in TRACS. Once completed, TRACS will generate a performance report that you can upload in GrantSolutions. When the award includes facility construction, the recipient will be responsible for entering information into the TRACS facility module to create facility records. The Service will enter facility record information into TRACS on behalf of any TRACS-exempt recipients. All recipient’s (including TRACS-exempt recipient’s) performance report information must provide quantitative outputs to the approved Standard Objectives, and narrative responses to the following questions: 1. What progress has been made towards completing your objectives(s) of the project? 2. Please describe and justify any changes in the implementation of your objective(s) or approach(es). 3. If applicable, please share if your project resulted in any unexpected benefits, promising practices, new understandings, cost efficiencies, management recommendations, or lessons learned. 4. For survey projects only: If applicable, does this project continue work from a previous award? If so, how do the current results compare to prior results? (Recipients may elect to add attachments such as tables, figures, or graphs to provide further detail when answering this question). 5. If applicable, identify and attach selected publications, photographs, screenshots of websites, or other documentation (including articles in popular literature, scientific literature, or other public information products) that have resulted from this project that highlight the accomplishments of the project. 6. Is this a project you wish to highlight for communication purposes? 7. For CMS States only: If the grant is a CMS, has the agency state submitted an updated report every three years detailing the CMS components: (a) inventory and scanning; (b) strategic plan; (c) operational plan; and (d) evaluation and control have been reviewed and summaries included which provide detailed review results and recommendations?

Audits. Grantee shall be subject to the audit requirements contained in the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 (31 USC 7501-7507) and Subpart F of 2 CFR Part 200, and the audit rules and policies set forth by the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget. 30 ILCS 708/65(c); 44 Ill. Admin. Code 7000.90.

12.1. Records Retention. Grantee shall maintain for three (3) years from the date of submission of the final expenditure report, adequate books, all financial records and, supporting documents, statistical records, and all other records pertinent to this Award, adequate to comply with 2 CFR 200.334, unless a different retention period is specified in 2 CFR 200.334, 44 Ill. Admin. Code 7000.430(a) and (b) or PART TWO or PART THREE. If any litigation, claim or audit is started before the expiration of the retention period, the records must be retained until all litigation, claims or audit exceptions involving the records have been resolved and final action taken. 12.2. Accessibility of Records. Grantee, in compliance with 2 CFR 200.337 and 44 Ill. Admin. Code 7000.430(f), shall make books, records, related papers, supporting documentation and personnel relevant to this Agreement available to authorized Grantor representatives, the Illinois Auditor General, Illinois Attorney General, any Executive Inspector General, the Grantor’s Inspector General, federal authorities, any person identified in 2 CFR 200.337, and any other person as may be authorized by Grantor (including auditors), by the State of Illinois or by federal statute. Grantee shall cooperate fully in any such audit or inquiry. 12.3. Failure to Maintain Books and Records. Failure to maintain books, records and supporting documentation, as described in this ARTICLE XII, shall establish a presumption in favor of the State for the recovery of any funds paid by the State under this Agreement for which adequate books, records and supporting documentation are not available to support disbursement. 12.4. Monitoring and Access to Information. Grantee must monitor its activities to assure compliance with applicable state and federal requirements and to assure its performance expectations are being achieved. Grantor shall monitor the activities of Grantee to assure compliance with all requirements and performance expectations of the award. Grantee shall timely submit all financial and performance reports, and shall supply, upon Grantor’s request, documents and information relevant to the Award. Grantor may make site visits as warranted by program needs. 2 CFR 200.329; 200.332. Additional monitoring requirements may be in PART TWO or PART THREE.

USFWS fund 422-20-041

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$130,000 to $1,460,000 and average number of awards are 11

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See the Service’s General Award Terms and Conditions for the general administrative and national policy requirements applicable to Service awards. The Service will communicate any other program- or project-specific special terms and conditions to recipients in their notices of award.

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IDNR One Natural Resources Way Springfield, IL 62627

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/grants/Pages/default.aspx

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Research, surveys, boat access, and operational projects

FY 2015 : $6,563,651
FY 2016 : $6,801,842
FY 2017 : $6,920,327
FY 2018 : $6,638,177
FY 2019 : $6,593,209
FY 2020 : $7,208,289
FY 2021 : $6,937,839
FY 2022 : $6,337,235