hrtg grant renewal info.pdf

Highly Rural Transportation Grant

2015 Renewal Guidance

In preparation for the fiscal year (FY) 15 HRTG grant renewal cycle. The HRTG program office is preparing this document for grant renewal guidance. This guidance should be helpful to your organization and the continued effort to provide transportation services to Veterans that live in highly rural areas.

What can the FY 15 grant funding be used for?

Purchase of vehicles (if needed) to transport Veterans that live in highly rural areas

Maintenance and vehicle upkeep (gas, chains, tires, etc.)

Expand or augment transportation services (Change of Scope Required with Renewal)

Payment for drivers (Organizations have to have specific policies and procedures in place). Specifically, organizations should look at 2 CFR 200 for Office of Management &

Budget grant guidelines.

Change in Scope: If you are changing anything from your original proposal you must do a change in scope discussing any change.

Purchasing additional vehicles

Expanding Services

Paying for drivers that were not in your original proposal

Change of scope information can be found on the HRTG grant provider page:

http://www.va.gov/HEALTHBENEFITS/vtp/grant_providers.asp

Budget form and budget narrative

If your organization will continue as is with no changes then no budget form or budget form or budget narrative is required.

If you purchase additional vehicles (Budget form and budget narrative required)

If you expand services (Budget form and budget narrative required)

If you are paying for drivers that were not included in your original proposal (Budget form and budget narrative required)

How to apply for the HRTG renewal grant funding

You can only apply for FY 15 HRTG renewal grant funding when the Notice of Funding

Availability (NOFA) is posted on grants.gov.

Organizations will have 30 days to apply for renewal funding with no extensions.

The NOFA will spell out everything that you need to do to apply for renal funding.

Current grantees can only apply for renewal funding on www.grants.gov once the NOFA is posted.

http://www.va.gov/HEALTHBENEFITS/vtp/grant_providers.asp