3015.2—Applicability.
(a) Grants and cooperative agreements.
This part applies to USDA grants and cooperative agreements. For each substantive provision in this part, either the words of the provision itself or other words in the same subpart tell whether the provision applies to subgrants. Exemptions to this part may be applicable to certain kinds of recipients. (See paragraph (d) of this section.)
(b) Terminology applicable to this part.
This part's substantive rules are the same for grants and cooperative agreements. Many of the rules are also the same for subgrants. Therefore, certain simplified terminology is used in the text. Specifically in all portions of this part:
(1)
Each provision that applies to grants also applies to cooperative agreements, even though the latter term does not appear in the provisions.
(2)
Each provision that applies to recipients of grants applies to recipients of cooperative agreements, even though the latter term does not appear in the provision.
(3)
The term recipient refers equally to recipients of grants and recipients of cooperative agreements.
(4)
The term awarding agency refers equally to a USDA agency that awards a grant and to one that awards a cooperative agreement.
(5)
The term subgrant refers equally to certain awards under grants and to the same kinds of awards under cooperative agreements.
(c) Public institutions of higher education and hospitals.
Grants, cooperative agreements and subgrants awarded to institutions of higher education and hospitals operated by a government are subject only to the provisions of this part that apply to non-governmental organizations.
(d) Recipients to which this part does not automatically apply.
This part does not automatically apply to the kinds of recipients listed below unless other conditions set forth in the grant, cooperative agreement, subgrant, or specific subpart in this part make all or specified portions apply:
(e) Collaborative arrangements.
(1)
Where permitted by the terms of the award, a recipient may enter into collaborative arrangements with other organizations to jointly carry out activities with grant or cooperative agreement funds. In this kind of situation, the arrangement between the recipient and each collaborating organization is subject to the rules in this part that apply to subgrants awarded by the recipients. (See the example shown in § 3015.195.)
(2)
This paragraph (e) does not apply to arrangements where the organizations receive an award jointly. In this case, they are not a recipient and subrecipient but, as the award notice states, joint recipients.