{"id":2373,"date":"2020-11-17T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:23:58","slug":"u-s-federal-grant-interactive-listening-session-set-for-dec-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/17\/u-s-federal-grant-interactive-listening-session-set-for-dec-3\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Federal Grant Interactive Listening Session Set for Dec. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/11\/2020_nov_Listening.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2374\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>AAPA and the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Maritime Administration (MARAD) will co-host a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/my.aapa-ports.org\/Public\/Events\/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=20domestic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Assistance Domestic Preference Interactive Listening Session<\/a>&nbsp;on Thursday, December 3, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern). The discussion is intended to raise awareness of domestic preference rules (Buy America and Buy American) and highlight best practices that can minimize project management disruptions arising from these federal grant requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s often uncertainty and\/or confusion among potential federal grant applicants and grant awardees about the U.S. government\u2019s domestic preference requirements prior to award and post award. Further, grant awardees may enter a grant agreement with USDOT with the understanding of the domestic preference provisions, but fail to plan for compliance with the requirements. This can jeopardize the viability of grant agreements and have a substantial impact on the anticipated grant budget or work plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAPA and the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Maritime Administration (MARAD) will co-host a&nbsp;Federal Assistance Domestic Preference Interactive Listening Session&nbsp;on Thursday, December 3, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern). The discussion is intended to raise awareness of domestic preference rules (Buy America and Buy American) and highlight best practices that can minimize project management disruptions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}