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100

These are the two times that BABA compliance will be reported on. 

What is semi-annually and closeout?

100

Your CST will prep these and place them into your Awardee's folder as soon as a general time for the site visit is established.

What are the Site Visit Materials?

100

A change or shift in the specific direction, goals, objectives, purposes, or project areas of the approved project.

What is a Change in Scope?

100

 The Baseline Report is due within this many calendar days of the close of the first calendar quarter AND is also a classic vinyl format for music singles! 

What is 45?

100

Regardless of who assembles the RR materials, this person is responsible for formally submitting the RR in eRA Commons.

Who is the Signing Official (SO)?

100

You may want to navigate to SharePoint's Documents section to grab one of these to aid you in topics such as: Expenditure Plans, First 45 Days, Monitoring, Report Review, and RRs.. just to name a few.

What is a SOP?

100

The __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ folder is where the FPO will upload their PMC notes in the eRA GRANTFLDR .

What is Additions for Review

100

The name of Snoopy's loyal companion, shown here.

Who is woodstock?
100

Once the report is approved and status updated, you will place a copy of it within this folder in SharePoint.

What is the Approved Reports folder?

200

This is the area in which the recipient can locate the addendums.

What is on the report tabs?

200

This is the amount of time you want to give the recipients to submit documents prior to the site visit. Remember, it's not just the submittal of documents but the FPO review of those documents as well. 

What is 60 days?

200

This Deputy Director of Strategy and Policy could rival Carrie Bradshaw's shoe collection.


Who is Nick?

200

"Lets go back to Indiana..." with this one. It's the number of Federally recognized tribes and Alaska Native Villages AND an Indiana area code.

What is 574?

Bonus fact: 347 are located in the contiguous United States, and 227 are Alaska Native Villages.

200

If during a project, a budget increase is less than or equal to 10% of the total award and funds can be transferred from another direct cost category to cover these costs, THIS may not be necessary.

What is a Re-Budget?

200

For this,  Recipients must receive formal written approval from the EPO, before proceeding with construction or project deployment activities, such as initiating site preparation, demolition, construction, or ground disturbance actions. Failure to satisfy this award condition in advance of project implementation is a violation of regulations.  

What is an EHP?

200

In Step 10, Contract Support sends the __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ template and guidance email to ID recipients and UA recipients that did not receive a CATEX during pre-award via tbcp@ntia.gov.

What is the Initial Expenditure Plan template?

200

This mythically majestic feline and the mapping-loving teammate he has chosen as his human.


Who is Perseus and Lily?

200

If this section is marked with a YES, then the FPO will return the report to the grant recipient for revisions. If no, the FPO will approve the report.

What is the Follow-up Required section?

300

This is the reason BABA was enacted as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in November 2021.

What is, to ensure all products and materials used are produced in the United States?

300

Project activities, milestones, achievements, reported changes to the grants key personnel, open issues, action items, overview, performance findings, etc... These are all items that need to be captured in this document.

What is the Facilitators Guide?

300

This is submitted when a recipient needs to extend or change an approved IEP.

What is an Amended IEP?

300

This is CCXXVII in Roman Numbers AND also the number of TBCP I awards made (including terminations).

What is 227?

300

Some approved RRs will result in a revised one of these being generated and sent to the awardee.

What is a Notice of Award (NoA)?

300

This allows a project's period of performance to be extended without providing additional funding and should be submitted at least 90 calendar days before the period of performance end date.

What is a NCE?

300





The Post-Award FPO schedules a meeting with the recipient, EPO, and __ __ __ __ (which is the acronym) (if available) to discuss Environmental and Historic Preservation (EHP) requirements and the documentation needed to start the Environmental Assessment (EA) process.

Who is the Tribal historic preservation officer (THPO)

300

This dynamic duo's photo pictures a new coworker named Luna.  This is the name of her floofy partner in crime, and the name of his spreadsheet loving owner.

Who is Kion and Theresa?

300

You are reviewing a Baseline report for Swiftie Nation, an ID/Planning project with a POP of 8/1/22-7/31/24 and previously approved NCE for extension to 7/31/25; this is the issue that you have found.

What is the period of performance end date needs to be updated to match the approved NCE. The recipient will need to fill in additional periods of the Baseline Report.

400



This is the type of TBCP project that is required to complete the BABA addendums?

What is TBCP 2 Infrastructure Deployment?

400

This is the platform you can utilize, and share with your CST, to collect documents that your recipient may upload for the visit; It is recommended that you organize each recipient's folder, the same as the SP Awardee CST Review folder structure, so that your documents may be easily sorted into the checklist arrangement. 

What is Kiteworks?

400

This document collects initial data before the execution of the recipients’ projects and assesses the accuracy of project plans, implementation timelines, and key outcomes.

What is the Baseline Report?

400

This is the only number whose name has the same number of letters as its value AND the maximum number of years of a Use and Adoption recipient's period of performance.

What is 4?

400

This RR is due to a Tribal election in which the AOR needs to be replaced by a newly elected AOR.

What is a Change in Key Personnel?

400






This CRM platform allows you to stay on top of your monitoring activities by housing all of your PMA activities.  You will go here before and after your monitoring activities to log data and upload your plans and reports.

What is NGP?

400

In Step 16, the FPO uploads the notes from the __ __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __   __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ (or kick-off) meeting to the GRANTFLDR module “Additions for Review” section.

What is the Project Management Conference?

400

The names of this angel on earth and her leading lady who keeps the Contract Support team on track!

Who are Junie and Paige?

400

This party is responsible for reviewing and approving FFRs.

Who is NIST/the GMS?

500

The Buy America preference only applies to articles, materials, and supplies that are consumed in, incorporated into, or affixed to THIS type of project.

What is an Infrastructure project?

500




A recipient procures this to conduct the FCC or Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) style testing for throughput and latency during Network Service Validation.

What is a Third Party or Independent Firm?

500

This fun-times energy drink lover is the Deputy Director of Grant Operations 


Who is Isabel Lopez

500

This year saw the postponed Tokyo Summer Olympics finally take place.  It is also the Fiscal Year of the TBCP I NOFO.

What is 2021?

500

-Designating a subrecipient or contractor that was listed as “TBD” in the approved application 

-Working with a subrecipient or contractor that was not identified in the approved application; or

-Replacing an organization identified in the approved application with a different subrecipient or contractor

.. are all examples of these things?

What is Subaward, Transfer or Contract Out Work?

500

The "standard" version of this award provision must be fulfilled by all recipients, whereas the "specific" or "special" ones, only apply to certain recipients.  

What is a SAC?

500

A complete TBCP Welcome Package contains:

• __ __ __ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __

• TBCP Recipient Handbook

• Link to the TBCP Program Awards Map

What is the Welcome Letter?

500

The names of this dapper little gentleman and his Disney loving pawrent.  

Who are Pep and Jules?

500

This is the error in this recipient's Baseline Report.

What is the information is not reported cumulatively?

600

These are the items that should be included on the BABA addendum to prove compliance. (You may list any 2 of the items discussed during Theron's training.)

What is: Manufacturer, Electronic Category, Harmonized System (HS) Code, Project Identifier, Country of Origin, Product Description, Quantity?

600

In extreme circumstances, third party internet-hosted speed tests (i.e, Ookla or similar) can be used to verify two items with prior approval of the program leadership. Name one or both of those items.

What is Latency and/or throughput?

600

This Deputy Director of Data and Analytics loves a good planner. 


Who is Andrew Orosco?

600

This number of jersey has been worn by many great sports starts, including: Stephen Curry, Terrell Davis, and Nolan Ryan to name a few... It is also the number of days that the FPO will need to ensure that reports are approved in eRA.


What is 30 ?

600

When a Change in Scope results in a decrease in federal funding (descope), it must be accompanied by this document, and this document, which will describe the planned expenditure of the remaining funds.

What is a SF-424A (or SF-424C) and a Budget Narrative?

600

A Corrective Action such as a Termination, Suspension of Payments, or a CAP may occur due to findings during this activity?

What is a QCC?

600

Within __ __ calendar days of issuance, in step 2, the recipient SO logs into eRA Commons to accept the award.

Within 30 calendar days of issuance

600

The snacktastic named furry coworker here and the SOP link-finding master.  

Who is Popcorn and Lindsey M.? (Or if you are Nick, "Oliver")

600

This Performance (Technical) report column is used to explain why an indicator differs from the Baseline report.

What is the Narrative column?


600






What is the earliest Period of Performance Start Date that a TBCP Recipient has?

What is: 12/1/21

700

These are unique identifiers established by the FCC, corresponding to a specific address and its associated geographic coordinates, ensuring every location can be distinctly identified for broadband service eligibility and reporting. 

What is FCC Broadband Serviceable Location (BSL) Fabric.  (Also known as Fabric.)

700

Documentation of IP addresses used for reporting that reflect measurements, documentation that the reported unmodified date originated from the network, and confirmation of the validation tester's identity are all items that would go on THIS document that the recipient must submit for any Network Service Validation Testing.

What is the Attestation Form?

700

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Environmental Assessment (EA) or Categorical Exclusion (CE), 

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Construction permit,

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Right-of-Way (ROW) permit, and

Tribal Government Resolution

are all examples of THIS, which may be required for a TBCP project

What is a Permit?

700


On March 27, 1964, North America's strongest recorded earthquake, with a moment magnitude of 9.2, rocked this state, which is also the state with the most TBCP awards. Each year this state has approximately 5,000 earthquakes, including 1,000 that measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale. Of the ten strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the world, three have occurred here.

What is Alaska?

700

This is in accordance with 2 CFR § 200.308 and is the transfer of funds by the recipient among direct cost categories are permitted without a budget revision for awards in which the federal share of the project is equal to or less than the Simplified Acquisition Threshold; currently $350,000 as of 10/1/25, pursuant to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo 18-18.

What is a Simplified Acquisition Threshold?

700

The FPO will utilize THIS to address issues identified during a conference call, desk review, or site visit that can be quickly resolved by the recipient, and it may be used in addition to discussions with the recipient to formally document previous attempts to resolve issues and outline recipient action items.

What is an IAL (Immediate Action Letter)?

700

Within __ business days, once the recipient accepts their award in eRA Commons, the FPO must sign off on the award in eRA. To do this, the FPO will log into the PMM module and add a sign-off note, then select “Sign-Off”. 

What is Five?

700

These whiskered wisdom keepers keep this TBCP guru in check during the workday.

Who is:

BB-Ate,

Lord Pazuzu the Smalls, and 

Lady Kebechet-wandering child of the night. 

... and Theron

700

Pumpkin Spice Community Council requested support filling out their Annual Report and the FPO identifies this error when the recipient shares their screen.

What is the recipient is using an out of date report template?