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6. Access to Records. The recipient shall provide any duly authorized <br />representative of DOC, the federal Department of Housing and Urban <br />Development (HUD), and the Comptroller General at all reasonable times <br />access to and the right to inspect, copy, monitor, and examine all of the <br />books, papers, records, and other documents relating to the grant for. a period <br />of three years following the completion of all close-out procedures. <br />Project Savings. The recipient is obligated to contribute 100 percent of its pledged <br />cash contribution to the CDBG project even if the project experiences a savings <br />after authorized activities are completed. Any project savings accrue to the CDBG <br />program. <br />Expenditure of Non-CDBG Funds. The recipient must ensrue that non-CDBG <br />funds aze expended along with CDBG funds, following the implementation <br />schedule described in the approved application and modified by the Performance <br />Contract, and shall report nn non-CDBG expenditures with each Annual <br />Performance Report, consistent with Section ..1100 PERFORMANCE of the <br />program regulations (4NCAC 19L), <br />9. Method of Payment. The Department of Commerce uses the STEPS-OUT system <br />for CDBG payments to units of local government. Payments on requisitions will be <br />made only by electronic funds transfer.. <br />10. Fair Housinu. For each grant year that a CDBG is active, a recipient must describe <br />the actions it will take in the areas of enforcement, education and removal of <br />bazriers and impediments to affirmatively further fair housing, Guidance For <br />developing a Fair Housing Plan can be found in DCA Bulletin 93-4.. <br />11. L-nual Employment and Procurement Opportunity. A recipient must describe the <br />actions it will take annually while the grant is open in the areas of enforcement, <br />education and removal of barriers and impediments that affirmatively fiirther equal <br />access in employment and procurement. This includes a description of steps to be <br />taken in the areas of advertisement, compliance and complaint tracking. <br />12, Local Economic Benefit (Section 3 Regulation), For each year that a CDBG is <br />active, a recipient must describe a strategy whereby opporhurities in employment <br />and procurement azising out of a CDBG assisted project are identified and made <br />available to low-income residents within the CDBG assisted area to the greatest <br />extent feasible, This strategy must include (1) identification of training and <br />tecimical assistance resources to prepaze low-income residents for employment and <br />procurement opportunities, (2) attempts to reach the numerical targets for new hires <br />set forth in the Section 3 regulation, which applies to recipients receiving $200,000 <br />or more in non-administrative line items expended for construction contracts of at <br />least $100,000 per contract, and (3) education of low-income residents within the <br />CDBG assisted area about the components and opportunities of the program.. <br />