20 C.F.R. § 632.38 Classification of costs.
Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
Allowable costs shall be charged against the following four cost categories: Administration; training, employment and other (including supportive services). (a) Costs are allocable to a particular cost category to the extent that benefits are received by such category. (b) The Native American grantee is required to plan, control and charge expenditures against the aforementioned cost categories. (c) The Native American grantee is responsible for ensuring that, at a minimum, subgrant or subcontract recipients plan, control, and charge expenditures against the aforementioned cost categories. (d) Administrative costs consist of all direct and indirect costs associated with the management of the grantee's program. These costs include but are not limited to: the salaries and fringe benefits of personnel engaged in executive, fiscal, data collection, personnel, legal, audit, procurement, data processing, communications, maintenance, and similar functions; and related materials, supplies, equipment, office space costs, and staff training. Also included are salaries and fringe benefits of direct program administrative positions such as supervisors, program analysts, labor market analysts, and project directors. Additionally, all costs of clerical personnel, materials, supplies, equipment, space, utilities, and travel which are identifiable with these program administration positions are charged to administration. (e) Training costs consist of goods and services which directly affect program participants in a training activity. Training costs include, but are not limited to, the following: the costs associated with on-the-job training, salaries, fringe benefits, equipment and supplies of personnel engaged in providing training; books and other teaching aids; equipment and materials used in providing training to participants; classroom space and utility costs; employability assessment; job related counseling for participants; job search assistance and labor market orientation; participant allowances, and tuition and entrance fees which represent instructional costs which have a direct and immediate impact on participants. In addition, 250 hours of youth try-out employment is considered an allowable training cost. Youth try-out employment is that which meets the requirements of §632.78. (f) The compensation of individuals who both instruct participants and supervise other instructors must be prorated among the training and administration cost categories on the basis of time records or other equitable means. Similarly, tuition fees, and the costs of supplies used in the course of both participant instruction and other activities should be prorated among the benefitting uses. (g) Employment costs consist of those costs associated with community service employment and work experience as described in §632.79. (h) Other costs include supportive services, services which are necessary to enable an individual to participate in training and assistance under this part, and those described in §632.80. (i) Costs which are not readily assignable to the training or employment cost category should be charged to either the administration or other category as appropriate. (j) Unemployment compensation costs are allowable for administrative staff hired in accordance with the administrative provisions of this part, and for CSE participants. Unemployment compensation costs are allowed for work experience only where required by State law. (k) Travel costs. (1) The cost of participant travel and staff travel necessary for the administration of programs under the Act are allowable costs, chargeable to the proper cost category, and must follow standard Federal travel requirements. (2) Travel costs of Native American grantee officials, including staff, board members, and advisory council members are allowable if the travel and costs specifically relate to programs under the Act. These costs will be charged to administration. Travel costs for officials of tribes or organizations belonging to a consortium require advance written approval from the Chief, DINAP, unless they are also officials of the Native American grantee organization. (3) Travel costs for participants using their personal vehicles in the performance of their jobs are allowable if the employing agency normally reimburses its other employees in this way. These costs shall be charged to supportive services. (4) Travel costs to enable participants to obtain employment or to participate in programs under the Act are allowable as supportive services. (l) Allocation of fixed unit charge. (1) When contractors or subgrantees bill the Native American grantee with a single unit charge containing costs which are chargeable to more than one cost category, the Native American grantee shall charge these costs to the cost categories in §632.38. For unit charges such as tuition fees for which the necessary detail cannot be provided, a reasonable estimate of the breakdown of the single unit charge among cost categories in §632.38 will be sufficient, including for audit purposes. When such unit charges are normally billed as a single charge and the cumulative amount of such charges to a service provider does not exceed $25,000 within the grant year, proration will not be required. These costs may be charged to the category receiving the most benefit. (2) The provisions of this section shall not apply to vendors selling or leasing equipment and attendant service at a commercially established rate to Native American grantees or subgrantees. (3) In the case of multiuse equipment there must be a proration of costs or, if there is a predominant usage relating to one cost category, a charge shall be made to that category. (4) Any single cost, such as staff salaries or fringe benefits, which is properly chargeable to more than one cost category shall be prorated among the affected categories.
Title 20: Employees' Benefits
PART 632—INDIAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
Subpart D—Administrative Standards and Procedures
§ 632.38 Classification of costs.
