Following the submission of this application, you will receive a separate email from Docusign with next steps to sign an assurance of compliance. Be sure to alert your authorizing official to look for this email, and to check their spam folder.

This step must be completed by the AUTHORIZING OFFICIAL indicated on the first page of the application.

Please note that it may take up to two business days before your authorizing official receives the assurance document from the Alliance. We will be in direct communication with you following the completion of the assurance of compliance to validate that your application has been received and processed.

Below is the text of the assurance of compliance that you will receive. You may review it here to address any concerns and to ensure your authorizing official is ready to sign it when received.

This Assurance of Compliance (the “Assurance”) is delivered by the undersigned, an authorized officer (the “Authorized Officer”) on behalf of APPLICANT ORGANIZATION (the “Applicant”), in connection with the Applicant’s grant application (the “Grant Application”) to the Upper Peninsula Arts & Culture Alliance (“the Alliance”) seeking a future grant by the Alliance (a “Grant”). As one of the inducements to the Alliance to consider the Grant Application, the Applicant hereby certifies, warrants and represents the following:

1. The project will be accessible to the public following ADA guidelines.
2. The project will comply with all applicable federal nondiscrimination policies including the following:
   1. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.), as implemented by the National Endowment for the Arts (the “NEA”) at 45 C.F.R. § 1110, and as clarified by Executive Order 13166.
   2. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 794 et seq.), as implemented by the NEA at 45 C.F.R. § 1151.
   3. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.).
   4. Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), as implemented by the NEA at 45 C.F.R. § 1156.
   5. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.).
   6. Executive Order 14173.
3. The project will comply as requested and deemed appropriate by the Alliance with requirements set forth in the following:
   1. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
   2. The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (54 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.).
4. If funded, the applicant will review and agree to comply with the NEA General Terms and Conditions.
5. The applicant has never been convicted of, or subject to civil judgment for, the commission of fraud, embezzlement, theft, forgery, or making false statements, or any other offense indicating a lack of business integrity or business honesty that seriously and directly affects your present responsibility, or any other cause of so serious or compelling nature that it affects an organization’s present responsibility.
6. The applicant maintains a drug-free workplace and employees who are involved in the project have been made aware that the workplace is to be drug-free, and if a violation of a criminal drug statute occurs, the Alliance will be notified immediately.
7. The applicant will not conduct any political lobbying within the grant-supported project.
8. If your project includes Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and/or objects of cultural patrimony, you will consult with lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, or Native organizations on the appropriate storage, treatment, and handling of such remains or cultural items, and make a reasonable and good-faith effort to incorporate and accommodate the Native American traditional knowledge of lineal descendants or Indian Tribes, and obtain free and informed consent from them prior to allowing any exhibition of, access to, or research on human remains or cultural items.
9. The application contains the complete scope of work for which the grant funds will be used.
10. The information in the application is accurate and complete to the best of the applicant’s knowledge.