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My application package says something to the effect of: "If an applicant does not have an approved indirect cost rate agreement with a cognizant Federal agency, the applicant must apply to the Department for a temporary indirect cost rate if it wishes to charge indirect costs to the grant."

This means SEAs negotiate indirect cost rates with ED. ED then has authority, through EDGAR, to approve the process the SEA uses in setting indirect cost rates for its districts. Therefore, ED considers the rate set by the SEA to be set by a cognizant Federal agency (even though the State is not technically a Federal agency). So, basically, the LEA can use the indirect cost rate established by its SEA. And, this rate is considered to be federally-approved.

The LEA should contact its SEA to find out what the rate is, or to have one calculated and approved.

No, it must use its own indirect rate.

The LEA can visit the Department's website at: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocfo/fipao/icgindex.html.

Under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), performance indicators have been established to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the Alaska Native Education program that are submitted to the Congress and provided to the public at large. The GPRA indicators are measures of program success and were selected because many projects can generate data concerning these outcomes. Each grantee is expected to submit an annual performance report documenting its contributions in assisting the Department in meeting these performance measures. As projects are expected to work contact the impacted LEAs during the application process, cooperation from the funded grantee in obtaining data related to the GPRA indicators is expected.