CSREES-2102A FY 2008 Section 1444 of NARETPA Estimated Certification

OMB Control #: 0524-0038
Expiration Date: (04/30/2009)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION SERVICE
FY 2008 ESTIMATED
CERTIFICATION OF OFFSET AND ENTITLEMENT
(Section 1449 Matching Funds Requirement for Research and Extension Activities at Eligible
Institutions)
1890 Land-Grant Institutions

1862 Land-Grant Institutions
in Insular Areas
Hatch Act funds for research activities

X Section 1444 of the National Agricultural
Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy
Act of 1977 (NARETPA) funds for

(Regular allocation)

extension activities

Hatch Act funds for research activities
(Multistate Research Funds)

Section 1445 of NARETPA
funds for research activities

Section 3(b) and (c) of the Smith Lever
Act funds for extension activities

To establish eligibility for allotment of funds for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008 certification is hereby made that the
[Name of Institution]
Guarantees the sum of $

or $
(Requirement)

(Amount Available)

that the funds guaranteed are derived from non-Federal sources listed below and are available and budgeted for expenditure for
agricultural research, extension, and education activities in accordance with the provision of the Act cited above.
SOURCES

AMOUNTS
$
$
$
$
Total

$

It is further certified that the above reported non-Federal funds are in addition to those used in matching other Federal funds; that
if any portion of the money thus guaranteed is not received from sources shown above, the institution or institutional unit will
either make up this deficiency from other non-Federal sources which may become available or report at the end of the fiscal year
2008 an equivalent unobligated balance of Federal Funds derived from appropriations under the Act above mentioned, which will
be deducted from the subsequent year allotment.

____________________________
Chief Financial Officer

_____________________________________
Administrator/Dean/Director

___________________________
Date

_____________________________________
Date

Form CSREES-2102A (08/07)

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