NCHRP Implementation Support Program. Successful Practices for State Transportation Research Office's Complying with 2 CFR 200 (NCHRP 20-111J)

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) streamlined the federal government’s guidance on administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements for federal awards by creating 2 CFR 200. This regulation is intended to ease administrative burden, strengthen oversight over federal funds and reduce the risk of waste, fraud, and abuse. NCHRP Project 20-111J ”Successful Practices for State Transportation Research Office's Complying with 2 CFR 200” provided a guide for successful practices related to implementing the guidance. The resulting guide has been reviewed by many state departments of transportation (DOTs), but they need assistance in applying the 2 CFR 200 regulation. Additional effort is needed to assist state agencies with deployment. This project will collect and review state DOT research manuals, policies and procedures, develop templates, and provide general research management practices for state DOTs. The objective of this research was to implement the findings of NCHRP 20-111J for five selected DOTs and to produce a comprehensive document on best practices for complying with 2 CFR 200 for state DOT research programs. These best practices should describe how to deal with the areas identified by state DOT staff for compliance with 2 CFR 200. The best practices will be based on information gathered from document reviews and interviews. The document will be flexible enough for use by state DOT research managers with varying levels of research program management experience.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4939

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $190000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-44(34)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Crichton-Sumners, Camille

• Performing Organizations:

  ARA, Incorporated

  100 Trade Centre Drive
  Suite 200
  Champaign, IL  United States  61820
• Principal Investigators:

  Bittner, Jason

• Start Date: 20210426
• Expected Completion Date: 20230210
• Actual Completion Date: 20230210

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administrative procedures; Auditing; Best practices; Compliance; Fraud; Oversight; Program management; Regulations; Research management; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Highways; Law; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01757160
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-44(34)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Nov 4 2020 11:51AM