CESU Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreements and Amendments may be found on each individual CESU’s wepage.
CESU Council Memoranda and Guidance
- 2025 CESU Renewal Guidance for Federal Managers, Host Universities, and Nonfederal Partners (October 2024)
Memo for Cooperative and Joint Venture Agreements expiring in 2024 - Memorandum: New Partner Application and Approval Process (September 2023)
Memo outlining the process for enrollment by federal agencies and nonfederal partners in individual CESUs. - Memorandum: CESU Project Reporting (February 2024)
- Memorandum: CESU Host University Support (November 2020)
Memo outlining the CESU Council annual host university support funding process.
Memorandum: CESU Host University Support Funding FY2024 (October 2023) - Memorandum: CESU Directors Participation at Council Meetings (June 2023)
Memo outlining process for participation by CESU Directors at Council meetings. - Memorandum: CESU Host University Transition (November 2020)
Memo outlining the process for transition of CESU Host University within an existing CESU (w/ appendices). - Memorandum: CESU Project Criteria (2013)
Memo outlining the criteria and characteristics of CESU projects. - Memorandum: Increase in CESU Indirect Cost Rate (2003)
Memo regarding the change in programmatic Indirect Cost Rate. - Administrative Guidance to Allowable Direct Costs under CESU Agreements (2005)
- Example RFP/Program Announcement (from 2002)
Agency Policy for Deviation from Negotiated Indirect Cost Rates under OMB Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200)
- CESU Council Agencies OMB Memo (August 2020)
Notification of approved deviation from Negotiated Indirect Cost Rates for CESU financial assistance awards under 2 CFR 200
Attachment – FY25 CESU Network Federal Agencies (October 2024) - U.S. Department of the Interior Policy Memo (DOI-AAAP-0007) (December 2014)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Policy Memo (FAM-2015-02) (July 2015)
- U.S. Department of Commerce Approved Programs
Memoranda of Understanding among the Federal Agencies Establishing and Continuing the CESU Network
Federal Agency Guidance
- U.S. Department of Commerce
NOAA Aquisition and Grants Office – Policy Website
NOAA Process for Awarding Financial Assistance to Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Members – Financial Assistance Instruction 14-01 (April 2014)
NOAA CESU Guidance (2018) - U.S. Department of Defense
Department of Defense – CESU Information and Guidance - U.S. Department of the Interior
DOI Departmental Manual – Chapter 02 Procurement Contracts, Grant and Cooperative Agreements - Bureau of Indian Affairs – Instructions for Initiating CESU Projects (September 2020)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – CESU Information and Guidance
- NPS CESU Financial Assistance Policy – FAP&P 1443-2017-02 (March 2017)
- Public Law 113-287 was enacted in December 2014, creating Title 54 U.S. Code “National Park Service and Related Programs” as the new location for all NPS service-wide authorities — “the organizational structure of the existing law was improved, and ambiguities, contradictions, and other imperfections in the law were removed” (U.S. House). Additional information about the changes (e.g., from 16 U.S.C. to 54 U.S.C.) are contained in the associated House Report 113-44.