---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1466.34"
title: "7"
number: "1466.34"
heading: "Award determinations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1466.34"
---

# §1466.34. Award determinations.

- (a) A peer review panel evaluates completed applications based on the application evaluation criteria that address announced national or State program priorities.
- (b) **The peer review panel forwards compiled application evaluations to a Grant Review Board (Board).**
- (c) The Board reviews the peer review panel evaluations and considers review comments from State Conservationists. The Board then makes recommendations for awards to the Chief, who makes final selections.
- (d) The NRCS National Headquarters makes a grant or cooperative agreement award after the Chief selects a grantee and the grantee agrees to the terms and conditions of the NRCS grant or cooperative agreement document.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 714b and 714c; and 16 U.S.C. 3839aa—3839-8.

### Source

Source: 84 FR 69280, Dec. 17, 2019, unless otherwise noted.