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The Grantee should confer with its chief financial officer, audit director or contact the Department for assistance with questions pertaining to the applicability of these requirements. 34. Following receipt of an audit report identifying any refund due to the Department for noncompliance by the Grantee with the Project Agreement, the Grantee will be allowed sixty (60) calendar days to submit additional pertinent documentation to offset any amount identified as being due to the Department. The Department, following a review of the documentation submitted by the Grantee, will inform the Grantee of the total refund due to the Department. 35. A. The Grantee's accounting systems must ensure that these funds are not commingled with funds from other agencies. Funds from each agency must be accounted for separately. The Grantee is prohibited from commingling funds on either a program -by -program or a project -by -project basis. Funds specifically budgeted and/or received for one project may not be used to support another project. Where the Grantee's, or subrecipient's, accounting system cannot comply with this requirement, the Grantee, or subrecipient, shall establish a system to provide adequate fund accountability for each project it has been awarded. B. If the Department finds that these funds have been commingled, the Department shall have the right to demand a refund, either in whole or in part, of the funds provided to the Grantee under this Project Agreement for non-compliance with the material terms of this Project Agreement. The Grantee, upon such written notification from the Department shall refund, and shall forthwith pay to the Department, the amount of money demanded by the Department. Interest on any refund shall be calculated based on the prevailing rate used by the State Board of Administration. Interest shall be calculated from the date(s) the original payment(s) are received from the Department by the Grantee to the date repayment is made by the Grantee to the Department. C. In the event that the Grantee recovers costs incurred under this Project Agreement and reimbursed by the Department from another source(s), the Grantee shall reimburse the Department for all recovered funds originally provided under this Project Agreement. Interest on any refund shall be calculated based on the prevailing rate used by the State Board of Administration. Interest shall be calculated from the date(s) the payment(s) are recovered by the Grantee to the date repayment is made to the Department by the Grantee. 36. The federal funds awarded under this Project Agreement must comply with The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006. The intent of the FFATA is to empower every American with the ability to hold the government accountable for each spending decision. The end result is to reduce wasteful Revised 06/14 DEP Project Agreement No. T1435, Page 12 of 18