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The recipient organization must complete the USFWS ASAP Enrollment Form. The completed form is submitted to the FWS program awarding the grant or cooperative agreement. The FWS program completes their portion of the form and forwards to the form to the Financial Assistance Systems Branch (FAS).

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Before an organization can perform payment requests, it must be active and have banking information defined. After receiving email notification, the FO has up to 45 days to add at least one valid bank account. The FO can add up to eight 8 unique bank accounts with a corresponding payment method, i.e. four  4 with ACH and four 4 with Fedwire. A bank account that is designated as “ACH/Fedwire” is counted as two as 2 separate accounts.

Bank accounts entered as “ACH’ for the payment method have a waiting period of up to seven to 7 business days before they are available for use.

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Even though the enrollment is activated, Treasury imposes a 10 business day bank validation period that begins on the date the Recipient Org Status becomes “Active” during which the federal agency cannot send funds to the newly activated account. Once the 10 business bank validation period ends, additional steps must be taken by FAS and the FWS program contact before the funds are made available to the recipient.

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