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DocuSign Envelope ID: A07C4620 -D9F0- 4228- 9B2F- lD499E5F8796 <br />officials to engage in similar lobbying activity), or with any Government official or employee in <br />connection with a decision to sign or veto enrolled legislation; <br />(4) Any attempt to influence: (i) The introduction of Federal or State legislation; or (ii) the enactment or <br />modification of any pending Federal or State legislation by preparing, distributing or using publicity <br />or propaganda, or by urging members of the general public or any segment thereof to contribute to <br />or participate in any mass demonstration, march, rally, fundraising drive, lobbying campaign or <br />letter writing or telephone campaign; or <br />(5) Legislative liaison activities, including attendance at legislative sessions or committee hearings, <br />gathering information regarding legislation, and analyzing the effect of legislation, when such <br />activities are carried on in support of or in knowing preparation for an effort to engage in <br />unallowable lobbying. <br />The following activities as enumerated in Paragraph B are excepted from the coverage of Paragraph A: <br />Paragraph B. <br />(1) Providing a technical and factual presentation of information on a topic directly related to the <br />performance of a grant, contract or other agreement through hearing testimony, statements or letters <br />to the Congress or a State legislature, or subdivision, member, or cognizant staff member thereof, in <br />response to a documented request (including a Congressional Record notice requesting testimony or <br />statements for the record at a regularly scheduled hearing) made by the recipient member, legislative <br />body or subdivision, or a cognizant staff member thereof; provided such information is readily <br />obtainable and can be readily put in deliverable form; and further provided that costs under this <br />section for travel, lodging or meals are unallowable unless incurred to offer testimony at a regularly <br />scheduled Congressional hearing pursuant to a written request for such presentation made by the <br />Chairman or Ranking Minority Member of the Committee or Subcommittee conducting such <br />hearing. <br />(2) Any lobbying made unallowable by subparagraph A (3) to influence State legislation in order to <br />directly reduce the cost, or to avoid material impairment of the organization's authority to perform <br />the grant, contract, or other agreement. <br />(3) Any activity specifically authorized by statute to be undertaken with funds from the grant, contract, <br />or other agreement. <br />Paragraph C. <br />(1) When an organization seeks reimbursement for indirect costs, total lobbying costs shall be <br />separately identified in the indirect cost rate proposal, and thereafter treated as other unallowable <br />activity costs in accordance with the procedures of subparagraph B.(3). <br />(2) Organizations shall submit, as part of the annual indirect cost rate proposal, a certification that the <br />requirements and standards of this paragraph have been complied with. <br />(3) Organizations shall maintain adequate records to demonstrate that the determination of costs as <br />being allowable or unallowable pursuant to this section complies with the requirements of this <br />Circular. <br />(4) Time logs, calendars, or similar records shall not be required to be created for purposes of <br />complying with this paragraph during any particular calendar month when: (1) the employee <br />engages in lobbying (as defined in subparagraphs (a) and (b)) 25 percent or less of the employee's <br />compensated hours of employment during that calendar month, and (2) within the preceding five- <br />year period, the organization has not materially misstated allowable or unallowable costs of any <br />nature, including legislative lobbying costs. When conditions (1) and (2) are met, organizations are <br />not required to establish records to support the allowability of claimed costs in addition to records <br />already required or maintained. Also, when conditions (1) and (2) are met; the absence of time logs, <br />calendars, or similar records will not serve as a basis for disallowing costs by contesting estimates of <br />lobbying time spent by employees during a calendar month. <br />Federal Certification — Lobbying (06115) Page 2 of 3 <br />