Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 6 - Miscellaneous › Chapter 78 - Grant Programs › 7 AAC 78.950 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this
				  chapter
(1) "Alaska Native entity"
				means an Alaska Native organization that the Secretary of the Interior
				acknowledges to exist as an Indian tribe through the Federally Recognized
				Indian Tribe List Act of 1994,  25 U.S.C. 479  a;
(2) "applicant" means the individual,
				organization, or other entity that responds to a request for proposals, request
				for letters of interest, or other method of solicitation issued by the
				department under this chapter;
(3)
				"approval" means a written agreement or permission to proceed, signed by an
				authorized representative of the commissioner or by the department, as
				applicable, in response to a written request from an applicant or a grantee for
				approval of a proposed action;
(4)
				"approve" means to issue an approval;
(5) "budget" means the financial expenditure
				plan for a grant project approved by the department; "budget" includes money
				awarded by the commissioner as a grant under a grant program and any other
				financing used for a grant project;
(6) "capital grant" means a grant that is
				financed by a capital appropriation;
(7) "commissioner" means the commissioner of
				the Department of Health and Social Services;
(8) "consortium" means a group of legal
				entities that has joined together to accomplish one or more agreed-upon
				purposes;
(9) "criminal background
				check" means a report of criminal justice information under
				13 AAC 68.300 -
				13 AAC 68.345;
(10) "department" means the Department of
				Health and Social Services;
(11)
				"desired outcomes" means the expected results from a grant program, including
				results from strategies used in a grant project;
(12) "direct cost" means a cost that can be
				identified with a particular grant or an activity of a grant project;
(13) "encumbrance" means a financial
				commitment related to unperformed executory contracts for goods or
				services;
(14) "facilities manager"
				means the department employee designated by the commissioner to supervise the
				management of facilities operated under grants made under this
				chapter;
(15) "grant" means an
				award of financial or direct assistance to an eligible applicant under this
				chapter;
(16) "grant award" means
				the award of a grant under this chapter;
(17)"grant income" means income earned during
				the grant period from a grant-funded project;
(18) "grant money" means the money provided
				in a grant award, including any match described in the grant agreement; "grant
				money" does not include grant income;
(19) "grant period" means the time period for
				which the grantee has been awarded a grant;
(20) "grant program" means a program
				established by the department, or created under state or federal law, for which
				the commissioner awards a grant for the services or activities an applicant or
				grantee provides or proposes to provide through a grant project;
(21) "grant project" means a project for
				which a grant is awarded to provide services or activities for one or more
				grant programs;
(22) "grantee"
				means the person or other legally accountable entity that receives a
				grant;
(23) "indirect cost" means a
				cost that is common to two or more projects or operations of a
				grantee;
(24) "minimum
				responsiveness criteria" means requirements set out in a request for proposals,
				request for letters of interest, or other method of solicitation that a grant
				applicant must comply with in the submission of a grant proposal to be
				considered for a grant by the department, including any deadline for submittal
				that is stated in the request or solicitation;
(25) "nonexpendable personal property" means
(A) an article of tangible personal property
				that is complete in itself, is of a durable nature, has an expected useful life
				of more than one year, and has an acquisition cost, as defined in
				7 AAC 78.280(b), of $5,000 or more;
				or
(B) intangible personal
				property, including patents, inventions, and copyrights;