The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Senior Procurement Executive; all DOT grant recipients)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Senior Procurement Executive policy authority over DOT financial assistance (2 C.F.R. part 1201)
- Issued
- 2020-03-10 Mar. 10, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-10 ("effective immediately") (read as 2020-03-10)
- End
- superseded by FAPL 2020-02 (Mar. 23, 2020) and later letters (read as 2020-03-23)
- In force
- Mar. 10, 2020 to Mar. 23, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- recipients and applicants of DOT financial assistance (State DOTs, transit agencies, airports, railroads)
- Functions reached
- OP grant-funded transportation projects and programs (deadlines, cost allowability during shutdowns)
- CB contractors and consultants on federally assisted projects
- Collection
- Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE
Operative words
"No. FAPL-2020-01 Date 3/10/2020 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE POLICY LETTER... Subject: Memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget (M-20-11), Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).... The Office of the Senior Procurement Executive Policy Letter is effective immediately."
Enforcement
grant administration (2 C.F.R. part 200)
Notes
Context instrument: the federal grant machinery's recognition, in the second week of March 2020, that COVID-19 was disrupting federally assisted transportation projects.
Retrieval noteLow weight; grant-administration relief.