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A financial assistance award instrument used by awarding agencies when the relationship with the recipient has as its principle purpose the transfer of a thing of value to the recipient in order to carry out a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a law of the United States, and substantial involvement is expected.[1][2] The legal document used in awarding a cooperative agreement is the notification of award.[3]

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Department

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Policy

Selecting the Cooperative Agreement as the proper award instrument

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• project performance and management
• partial or total termination of work
• changes in the scope of work
• period of performance
• application of funding and resources
• title to property
• records maintenance and access
• liabilty
• etc.

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Service Policy

For cooperative agreements, programs must include a detailed description of the expected Service involvement in the project activities in both the funding opportunity description and the Notice of Award letter.[9]  This description will read as follows: [10]

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