The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) local agency solicitations for Nevada are available.  

This grant provides funds to assist local and tribal law enforcement to prevent or reduce crime and violence.  As such, only local units of government other than state agencies will be eligible to apply. 

The Nevada Office of Criminal Justice Assistance (OCJA) acts as the State Administrative Agency (SAA) for the ARRA JAG funding.  Grant applications for the ARRA JAG funds must be postmarked or hand delivered to OCJA by July 24, 2009.  THIS IS A NEW DUE DATE.

Resubmission of JAG grant application as ARRA JAG application 

If your agency submitted an application for the regular JAG grant on April 17, 2009 and was unsuccessful in obtaining an award, you may contact OCJA at (775) 687-3700 to discuss resubmitting the application under this ARRA JAG solicitation.    If it is determined that the project is eligible and you wish to resubmit the application, you must download, complete and submit a new title page with signature specifically for the ARRA JAG.  Click here to download title page form:   http://www.ocj.nv.gov/arrajagtitlepage.wrd.   It is possible that you may not be required to rewrite the entire proposal.    

If you will be submitting a new proposal which has not been previously reviewed, you will need to download the ARRA JAG application and assurances for submission. 

 ARRA JAG Grant Application     Be sure to download  the Assurances file below as well.

Assurances for All Grants - download

ARRA JAG Title Page - If you will be resubmitting your regular JAG application, you must download, sign and submit this ARRA JAG Title page.

Please review the following before submitting an ARRA JAG application:

Preference will be given to projects demonstrating the following:

• Application meets all grant requirements, including acceptance of expanded. reporting requirements for ARRA JAG funding. (see below.)

• Initiative meets one of the OCJA priority areas (see below.)

• Positive performance on previous awarded grants from OCJA, if applicable.

• Evidence of collaboration among agencies to facilitate intelligence led policing, information sharing or intervention activities.
   

Nevada’s priority areas for JAG ARRA funding: 

• Narcotics task forces and counter drug activity

• Prevention and suppression of gang activities

• Shared or multi-agency use of information systems

• Enhanced records management systems

• Drug and gang prevention, intervention and education programs

• Drug treatment, to include alternative sentencing programs and programs that identify and direct individuals into drug treatment and aftercare programs

Consistent with the special purposes and goals of the Recovery Act, and its strong emphasis on accountability and transparency, it is essential that all funds from a Recovery Act grant be tracked, accounted for, and reported on separately from all other funds (including DOJ grant funds from non-Recovery Act grants awarded for the same or similar purposes or programs). Recipients must also be prepared to track and report on the specific outcomes and benefits attributable to use of Recovery Act funds.

The accounting systems of all sub-recipients must ensure that funds from any award under this Recovery Act solicitation are not commingled with funds from any other source.   Misuse of grant funds may result in a range of penalties, including suspension of current and future funds, suspension or debarment from federal grants, recoupment of monies provided under a grant, and civil and/or criminal penalties.

Consistent with the Recovery Act emphasis on accountability and transparency, reporting requirements under Recovery Act grant programs will differ from and expand upon OJP’s standard reporting requirements for grants.  Quarterly reports must be submitted within 5 (five) calendar days of the end of each quarter. Receipt of funds will be contingent on meeting the Recovery Act and OCJA reporting requirements.

New performance measures specific to the JAG Program have been developed.  Performance measures can be found at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/JAG_Measures.pdf.

For assistance or clarification on submissions, please feel free to contact OCJA at (775) 687-3700, by e-mail at ocja@dps.state.nv.us or contact Michelle Hamilton, Chief at (775) 687-4166.

Links to Application Forms:

ARRA JAG Grant Application     Be sure to download  the Assurances file below as well.

Assurances for All Grants

ARRA JAG Title Page - If you will be resubmitting your regular JAG application, you must download, sign and submit this ARRA JAG Title page.