Program income under WSFR must account for both income earned by the recipient on grant-related activities and license revenue restrictions, when applicable.
This information applies to:
Wildlife Restoration and Sport Fish Restoration Programs
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Overview
Authorities
50 CFR 80 Administrative Requirements, Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Acts
Subpart I—Program Income
§ 80.120 What is program income?
(a) Program income is gross income received by the grantee or subgrantee and earned only as a result of the grant during the grant period.
(b) Program income includes revenue from:
(1) Services performed under a grant;
(2) Use or rental of real or personal property acquired,constructed, or managed with grant funds;
(3) Payments by concessioners or contractors under an arrangement with the agency or subgrantee to provide a service in support of grant objectives on real property acquired, constructed, or managed with grant funds;
(4) Sale of items produced under a grant;
(5) Royalties and license fees for copyrighted material, patents, and inventions developed as a result of a grant; or
(6) Sale of a product of mining, drilling, forestry, or agriculture during the period of a grant that supports the:
(i) Mining, drilling, forestry, or agriculture; or
(ii) Acquisition of the land on which these activities occurred.
(c) Program income does not include:
(1) Interest on grant funds, rebates, credits, discounts, or refunds;
(2) Sales receipts retained by concessioners or contractors under an arrangement with the agency to provide a service in support of grant objectives on real property acquired, constructed, or managed with grant funds;
(3) Cash received by the agency or by volunteer instructors to cover incidental costs of a class for hunter or aquatic-resource education;
(4) Cooperative farming or grazing arrangements as described at § 80.98; or
(5) Proceeds from the sale of real property.
§ 80.121 May an agency earn program income?
A State fish and wildlife agency may earn income from activities incidental to the grant purposes as long as producing income is not a primary purpose. The agency must account for income received from these activities in the project records and dispose of it according to the terms of the grant.
§ 80.122 May an agency deduct the costs of generating program income from gross income?
(a) A State fish and wildlife agency may deduct the costs of generating program income from gross income when it calculates program income as long as the agency does not:
(1) Pay these costs with:
(i) Federal or matching cash under a Federal grant, or (ii) Federal cash unrelated to a grant.
(2) Cover these costs by accepting:
(i) Matching in-kind contributions for a Federal grant, or
(ii) Donations of services, personal property, or real property unrelated to a Federal grant.
(b) Examples of costs of generating program that may qualify for deduction from gross income if they are consistent with paragraph (a) of this section are:
(1) Cost of estimating the amount of commercially acceptable timber in a forest and marking it for harvest if the commercial harvest is incidental to a grant-funded habitat- management or facilities-construction project.
(2) Cost of publishing research results as a pamphlet or book for sale if the publication is incidental to a grant-funded research project.
[76 FR 46156, Aug. 1, 2011]
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