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CERTIFICATION REGARDING DEBARMENT, <br />SUSPENSION, INELIGIBILITY AND VOLUNTARY <br />EXCLUSION - LOWER TIER COVERED TRANSACTIONS <br />24 CFR Part 24, Appendix B <br />Instructions for Certification <br />1. By signing and submitting this proposal, the prospective lower tier participant is providing <br />the certification set out below. <br />2. The certification in this clause is a material representation of fact upon which reliance was <br />placed when this transaction was entered into. If it is later determined that the prospective lower <br />tier participant knowingly rendered an erroneous certification, in addition to other remedies <br />available to the Federal Government, the department or agency with which this transaction <br />originated may pursue available remedies, including suspension and/or debarment. <br />3. The prospective lower tier participant shall provide immediate written notice to the person <br />to which this proposal is submitted if at any time the prospective lower tier participant learns that its <br />certification was erroneous when submitted or has become erroneous by reason of charged <br />circumstances. <br />4. The terms covered transaction, debarred, suspended, ineligible, lower tier covered <br />transaction, participant, ep rson, priniM covered transaction, rip •ncipal, propos al, and voluntarily <br />excluded, as used in this clause, have the meanings set out in the Definitions and Coverage sections <br />of rules implementing Executive Order 12549. You may contact the person to which this proposal <br />is submitted for assistance in obtaining a copy of those regulations. <br />5. The prospective lower tier participant agrees by submitting this proposal that, should the <br />proposed covered transaction be entered into, it shall not knowingly enter into any lower tier <br />covered transaction with a person who is debarred, suspended, declared ineligible, or voluntarily <br />excluded from participation in this covered transaction, unless authorized by the department or <br />agency with which this transaction originated. <br />6. The prospective lower tier participant further agrees by submitting this proposal that it will <br />include this clause titled "Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and <br />Voluntary Exclusion - Lower Tier Covered Transaction," without modification, in all lower tier <br />covered transactions and in all solicitations for lower tier covered transactions. <br />7. A participant in a covered transaction may rely upon a certification of a prospective <br />participant in a lower tier covered transaction that it is not debarred, suspended, ineligible, or <br />voluntarily excluded from the covered transaction, unless it knows that the certification is <br />erroneous. A participant may decide the method and frequency by which it determines the <br />eligibility of its principals. Each participant may, but is not required to check the Nonprocurement <br />21 <br />