| 2. Period  of  Performance
<br />The  period  of performance  is specified  in the  Award. The  Applicant  is only  authorized  to
<br />perform  allowable  activities  approved  under  the  award, within  the  period  of performance.
<br />3. Lobbying  and  Political  Activities
<br />As required  by Section  1352, Title  31 of  the  United  States  Code  (u.s.c.), for  persons  entering
<br />into a contract, grant, loan, or cooperative  agreement  from  an agency  or requests  or  receives
<br />from  an agency  a commitment  providing  for  the  United  States  to insure  or guarantee  a loan, the
<br />Applicant  certifies  that:
<br />(a) No federal  appropriated  funds  have  been  paid  or will be paid, by or on behalf  of  the
<br />undersigned, to any  person  for  influencing  or attempting  to influence  an officer  or
<br />employee  of  an agency, a Member  of  Congress, an officer  or  employee  of Congress, or
<br />an employee  of  a Member  of Congress  in connection  with  the  awarding  of  any  Federal
<br />contract, the  making  of  any  federal  grant, the making  of  any  federal  loan, the  entering
<br />into of  any  cooperative  agreement, and  the  extension, continuation, renewal,
<br />amendment, or modification  of  any  federal  contract, grant, loan, or cooperative
<br />agreement.
<br />(b) If any  funds  other  than  federal  appropriated  funds  have  been  paid  or will be paid  to any
<br />person  for  influencing  or  attempting  to influence  an officer  or employee  of  any  agency, a
<br />Member  of  Congress, an officer  or  employee  of Congress, or an employee  of  a Member
<br />of Congress  in connection  with  this  federal  contract, grant, loan, or cooperative
<br />agreement, the  undersigned  shall  complete  and  submit  Standard  Form-LLL, "Disclosure
<br />Form  to Report  Lobbying", in accordance  with  its instructions.
<br />(c) The  undersigned  shall  require  that  the  language  of  this  certification  be included  in the
<br />award  documents  for  all subawards  at all tiers  (including  subcontracts, subgrants, and
<br />contracts  under  grants, loans, and  cooperative  agreements) and  that  all subrecipients
<br />shall  certify  and  disclose  accordingly.
<br />The  Applicant  will also  comply  with  provisions  of  the  Hatch  Act  (5 u.s.c. §§ 1501- 1508  and  §§
<br />7324-7328) which  limit  the  political  activities  of  employees  whose  principal  employment
<br />activities  are  funded  in whole  or in part  with  federal  funds.
<br />Finally, the  Applicant  agrees  that  federal  funds  will not be used, directly  or indirectly, to support
<br />the  enactment, repeal, modification  or  adoption  of  any  law, regulation  or policy  without  the
<br />express  written  approval  from  the  California  Governor's  Office  of Emergency  Services  (Cal
<br />OES) or the  federal  awarding  agency.
<br />4. Debarment  and  Suspension
<br />As required  by Executive  Orders  12549  and  12689, and  2 C.F.R. § 200.213  and  codified  in 2
<br />C.F.R. Part  180, Debarment  and  Suspension, the  Applicant  will  provide  protection  against
<br />waste, fraud, and abuse  by debarring  or suspending  those  persons  deemed  irresponsible  in
<br />their  dealings  with  the  federal  government. The  Applicant  certifies  that  it and its principals,
<br />recipients, or  subrecipients:
<br />(a) Are  not  presently  debarred, suspended, proposed  for  debarment, declared  ineligible, or
<br />voluntarily  excluded  from  covered  transactions  by any  federal  department  or  agency;
<br />(b) Have  not  within  a three-year  period  preceding  this  application  been  convicted  of or had
<br />a civil  judgment  rendered  against  them  for  commission  of  fraud  or a criminal  offense  in
<br />connection  with  obtaining, attempting  to obtain, or performing  a public  (federal, state,
<br />or local) transaction  or  contract  under  a public  transaction; violation  of federal  or state
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