Ever go eight rounds with a tiger? Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? Not to worry, that’s not the type of tiger were referring to today. This one is more positive, and less life-threatening.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) is developing formal written procedures to ensure that it enforces a special condition requiring its Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) subrecipients comply with a 12-month expenditure requirement, and that it appropriately reallocates funds that were not spent, in response to a recent audit by the Pennsylvania Auditor General. The department also is preparing a comprehensive monitoring plan to improve its reviews of HOME Investment Partnership Program subgrantees.

Having clean, safe water available to drink is something many of us take for granted. What we’ve seen in Flint, Mich., over the last few months has done nothing but emphasize the importance of protecting water resources to ensure the health of the citizens of our communities.

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is proposing to implement a disaster deductible, in which state, tribal or territorial governments would be required to meet a predetermined level of nonfederal financial commitment before FEMA will provide federal assistance under the Public Assistance Program following a major disaster. By requiring them to meet a deductible, FEMA aims to encourage recipients to take measures to improve disaster planning and recovery.

As we approach President’s Day, it seemed like a perfect time to, once again, assess which federal agencies have finalized their adoption of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) uniform grant guidance into their agency regulations, and more importantly, which ones have not.

Sometimes when you are souring the grants news landscape, you run across an unexpected headline that you just makes you chuckle. The most recent example was on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Office of Extramural Research blog, Extramural Nexus.