Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 55-2-3 - Award of Grants3.1. All grant periods shall be on a calendar year beginning the first day of January of each year.3.2. Final Grant and Reductions in Grand Awards. In order to be eligible for the full grant award, the LEPC must have incurred eligible expenses of at least the grant amounts and must have completed the required work activities as outlined in the grant proposal. If the LEPC fails to complete the required work activities, the final grant award and final payment of the grant shall be reduced. 3.2.1. The value of the grant is calculated as follows:3.2.1.a. Work activities associated with planning shall be worth up to 70% of the grant;3.2.1.b. Work activities associated with Local Emergency Planning Committee administration shall be worth up to 30% of the grant; and3.2.1.c. Exercises shall be worth up to the maximum allowable amount for the type of exercise conducted.3.3. The following shall constitute eligible costs for purposes of the grant program: 3.3.1. Personnel costs, including salary and fringe benefits, travel reimbursement for developing, reviewing and updating emergency response plans and for administration of the LEPC are eligible.3.3.2. Copying, printing, postage costs associated with developing, reviewing, updating and publishing of emergency response plans and associated LEPC operations are eligible.3.3.3. Each LEPC is eligible for funding during the grant year for certain costs of conducting hazardous materials emergency response exercises as determined by the SERC.3.4. Requests for the first payment (up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the grant award) shall be made if the grant application is approved.3.5. Second payment requests (up to twenty-five percent (25%) of the grant application) must be received by the SERC no later than the first of July of each grant year and shall include actual expenditures incurred by the LEPC through the thirty-first of May of the grant year. No second payments will be made for requests received after the first of July; those requests will be considered as part of the final close-out of tiie grant.3.6. Grant close-out including reimbursement requests and certification of expenses must be received by the SERC no later than the first day of March of the next grant year. Payment will be made based on actual eligible documented expenditures and completed LEPC Emergency Response Plan submission. If the required close-out information is not received by the SERC by the first day of March 1 and: 3.6.1. If no request for a second payment has been received, the SERC shall assume that the LEPC has had no eligible expenditures during the grant period and any payment shall be considered to be an overpayment, or3.6.2. If a request for a second payment has been received, die SERC shall assume that the eligible expenditures reported on the request for second payment are the LEPC's total final eligible expenditures.