Indirect Rates - About DARRP

October 2002: DARRP hired the accounting firm of Cotton and Company LLP (Cotton) to review and certify DARRP costs incurred on cases for purposes of cost recovery and to develop indirect rates for FY 2002 and subsequent years. The FY 2002 indirect rates for each of the DARRP components were published in the Federal Register on October 6, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 57672). Cotton's detailed reports on the FY 2002 indirect rate development can be found below:
December 1998: the Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program (DARRP) hired the public accounting firm Rubino & McGeehin, Chartered (R&M), to evaluate the cost accounting system and allocation practices, recommend the appropriate indirect cost allocation methodology, and determine the indirect cost rates for the three organizations that comprise the DARRP. The goal of this effort was to develop the most appropriate indirect cost rate allocation methodology and rates for each of the DARRP component organizations for various fiscal periods. Indirect cost rates were published in the Federal Register, December 7, 2000. Please also refer to corresponding Errata Sheet for Federal Register Notice December 7, 2000. R&M's report on the DARRP's indirect cost rates and its policy are as follows:
- Letter from Rubino and McGeehin, Chartered to NOAA, December 5, 2000
- Report "Indirect Costs Incurred by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program", December 2000.

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