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General
The cognizant agency for negotiating indirect cost rates shall be the federal agency that provides the majority of the federal funding (per OMB guidance).
Interior Business Center's Indirect Cost Services is the federal cognizant agency designated by OMB to negotiate indirect cost rates for:
All Indian tribal governments and their component units (component units are legally separate organizations for which the elected officials of the primary government are financially accountable)
Insular area governments (such as Guam, America Samoa)
Nonprofit, state, and local entities that receive a majority of their federal funding from the Department of the Interior
Indirect Cost Services also negotiates indirect cost rates, under interagency agreements, on behalf of the following federal agencies that provide the majority of the organization's federal funding:
- Coast Guard
- Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service
- Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service
- Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service
- Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
- Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Business Cooperative Services
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environmental Programs
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Direct I Self Help Housing
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Direct II Preservation Housing
- Department of Agriculture, Rural Housing Service, Rural Communities Development Initiatives
- Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration
- Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Community Planning and Development
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Housing Counseling
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Public and Indian Housing
- Department of State
- Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
- Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
- Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
- Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Department of the Interior, Office of Natural Resources
- Department of the Interior, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
- Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund
- Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service
- Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
- Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
- Election Assistance Commission
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Millennium Challenge Corporation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Science Foundation
Indirect Cost Services has created sample proposal formats, checklists, and templates to assist you in completing the ICP proposal. Please select the appropriate sample proposal for your type of organization (i.e., nonprofit organization). Although it is not required that you follow our ICP format, doing so will expedite the review process because our format will contain the information needed to process the ICP proposal.