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A TRUE COPY CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE J . K . BARTON , CLERK Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs AWARD CONTINUATION � i Bureau of Justice Assistance SHEET PAGE 3 OF 6 Grant PROJECT NUMBER 2011 -DJ-BX-3341 AWARD DATE 09/01/2011 SPECIAL CONDITIONS 8 . Pursuant to Executive Order 13513 , " Federal Leadership on Reducing Text Messaging While Driving, " 74 Fed. Reg. 51225 (October 1 , 2009), the Department encourages recipients and sub recipients to adopt and enforce policies banning employees from text messaging while driving any vehicle during the course of performing work funded by this grant, and to establish workplace safety policies and conduct education, awareness, and other outreach to decrease crashes caused by distracted drivers. 9. The recipient agrees to comply with applicable requirements regarding Central Contractor Registration (CCR) and applicable restrictions on subawards to first-tier subrecipients that do not acquire and provide a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS ) number. The details of recipient obligations are posted on the Office of Justice Programs web site at http://www.ojp. gov/funding/ccr.httn (Award condition: Central Contractor Registration and Universal Identifier Requirements), and are incorporated by reference here. This special condition does not apply to an award to an individual who received the award as a natural person (i.e., unrelated to any business or non-profit organization that he or she may own or operate in his or her name). 10 . The recipient agrees to comply with applicable requirements to report first-tier subawards of $25 ,000 or more and, in certain circumstances, to report the names and total compensation of the five most highly compensated executives of the recipient and first-tier subrecipients of award funds. Such data will be submitted to the FFATA Subaward Reporting System (FSRS). The details of recipient obligations, which derive from the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA), are posted on the Office of Justice Programs web site at http://www.ojp.gov/funding/ffata. htm (Award condition: Reporting Subawards and Executive Compensation), and are incorporated by reference here. This condition, and its reporting requirement does not apply to grant awards made to an individual who received the award as a natural person ( i.e. , unrelated to any business or non-profit organization that he or she may own operate in his or her name). 11 . The recipient is required to establish a trust fund account. (The trust fund may or may not be an interest-bearing account. ) The fund, including any interest, may not be used to pay debts or expenses incurred by other activities beyond the scope of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG). The recipient also agrees to obligate and expend the grant funds in the trust fund (including any interest earned) during the period of the grant. Grant funds ( including any interest earned) not expended by the end of the grant period must be retumed to the Bureau of Justice Assistance no later than 90 days after the end of the grant period, along with the final submission of the Federal Financial Report (SF425 ). 12 . To avoid duplicating existing networks or IT systems in any initiatives funded by BJA for law enforcement information sharing systems which involve interstate connectivity between jurisdictions, such systems shall employ, to the extent possible, existing networks as the communication backbone to achieve interstate connectivity, unless the grantee can demonstrate to the satisfaction of BJA that this requirement would not be cost effective or would impair the functionality of an existing or proposed IT system. 13 . To support public safety and justice information sharing, OJP requires the grantee to use the National Information Exchange Model (N1EM ) specifications and guidelines for this particular grant. Grantee shall publish and make available without restriction all schemas generated as a result of this grant to the component registry as specified in the guidelines . For more information on compliance with this special condition, visit hup://www.niem . gov/implementationguide.php, OJP FORM 4000/2 (REV. 4-88)