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Re: How States and Cities Are Adapting to Changing Administration Discretionary Grant Rules
Author: Chico
Date: 07-01-2025 - 19:53
More commie trash. Wrote:
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> > Yes it affects rail, and a whole bunch of other
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> "discretionary grant", idiot.
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> Discretionary Grant
> A grant (or cooperative agreement) for which the
> federal awarding agency generally may select the
> recipient from among all eligible recipients, may
> decide to make or not make an award based on the
> programmatic, technical, or scientific content of
> an application and can decide the amount of
> funding to be awarded.
What is this supposed the mean? How does this relate to "More commie trash"?
Grants are made on a discretionary basis, only in the selection and award, not after they have been awarded, and there is a "contract" for the execution of that grant and use of the funds awarded.
These projects are funded by grant "contracts" known as full funding agreements with the respective DOT Federal funding agency (FTA, FRA, FHWA, and the FAA). These agreements then allow the agencies to incur costs for the project, that will be matched by the Federal share, after the States have paid out, through reimbursement for the Federal share of the expenditures.
Stuff that has not been awarded and does not have a full funding agreement, can be held.
Congress can vote to rescind the funding for a previously funded project. Which has just happened. And, that has happened before, but not often, and almost never has been done if there is a full funding agreement in place with the State and the local agency recipient.
But blowing off the grant contracts you have already made merely at the "disretionary" political whimsy of the Executive Branch (impoundment) is still not permitted by any statute or court decision I've heard of, at least as of yet...
There were actually even Federal grant and contracting courses they offer CEU's in, through the USDOT, that even regular folks could take at one time, which may still be offered. Look on-line at USDOT for that sort of thing.
Meanwhile, it's not going to be dull for the folks who have to deal with this mess.
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> Commenter Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Yes it affects rail, and a whole bunch of other
> > stuff too.
> >
> >
> [enotrans.org]
>
> >
> -are-adapting-to-changing-trump-administration-gra
>
> > nt-rules/
>
> "discretionary grant", idiot.
>
> Discretionary Grant
> A grant (or cooperative agreement) for which the
> federal awarding agency generally may select the
> recipient from among all eligible recipients, may
> decide to make or not make an award based on the
> programmatic, technical, or scientific content of
> an application and can decide the amount of
> funding to be awarded.
What is this supposed the mean? How does this relate to "More commie trash"?
Grants are made on a discretionary basis, only in the selection and award, not after they have been awarded, and there is a "contract" for the execution of that grant and use of the funds awarded.
These projects are funded by grant "contracts" known as full funding agreements with the respective DOT Federal funding agency (FTA, FRA, FHWA, and the FAA). These agreements then allow the agencies to incur costs for the project, that will be matched by the Federal share, after the States have paid out, through reimbursement for the Federal share of the expenditures.
Stuff that has not been awarded and does not have a full funding agreement, can be held.
Congress can vote to rescind the funding for a previously funded project. Which has just happened. And, that has happened before, but not often, and almost never has been done if there is a full funding agreement in place with the State and the local agency recipient.
But blowing off the grant contracts you have already made merely at the "disretionary" political whimsy of the Executive Branch (impoundment) is still not permitted by any statute or court decision I've heard of, at least as of yet...
There were actually even Federal grant and contracting courses they offer CEU's in, through the USDOT, that even regular folks could take at one time, which may still be offered. Look on-line at USDOT for that sort of thing.
Meanwhile, it's not going to be dull for the folks who have to deal with this mess.
