Or. Admin. R. 330-270-0070 - Performance of grantees, remedies

(1) The Department reserves the right to identify deficiencies in the performance of any grantee or their partners discovered during compliance monitoring activities and take remedial action upon the grantees, including, but not limited to terminating its funding agreement with a grantee and requiring repayment of Community Heat Pump Deployment Program funding.

(2) To remedy any identified deficiencies, the Department:

(a) Must issue a deficiency notice notifying a grantee of deficiencies identified through the monitoring process and provide documentation for the basis of such determination and the specific deficiencies that must be corrected;

(b) Must require the grantee to correct any deficiencies in a manner and time satisfactory to the Department.

(3) A grantee must repay to the Department grant funds that the grantee, or their partners, does not use in accordance with the provisions of the performance agreement.

(4) The Director of the Oregon Department of Energy may order the grantee repay a portion or all of the grant funds if the Director finds that there are grounds of misappropriation, fraud or similar reasons after auditing or investigating the grantee's, or their partner's, operations and conducting a contested case hearing under ORS 183.413 to 183.470.

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Or. Admin. R. 330-270-0070

DOE 1-2023, adopt filed 02/13/2023, effective 2/13/2023

Statutory/Other Authority: Oregon Laws 2022, Chapter 86 (Senate Bill 1536)

Statutes/Other Implemented: Oregon Laws 2022, Chapter 86 (Senate Bill 1536)