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U.S.Department of Homeland Security Headquarters 500 C St SW Washington,D.C.20042 s■fy,. :UI,..„,„ y FEMA ' 12. ACCESS TO RECORDS a. Standard. All recipients, subrecipients, successors, transferees, and assignees must acknowledge and agree to comply with applicable provisions governing DHS access to records, accounts, documents, information, facilities, and staff. Recipients must give DHS/FEMA access to, and the right to examine and copy, records, accounts, and other documents and sources of information related to the federal financial assistance award and permit access to facilities, personnel, and other individuals and information as may be necessary, as required by DHS regulations and other applicable laws or program guidance. See DHS Standard Terms and Conditions: Version 8.1 (2018). Additionally, Section 1225 of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018 prohibits FEMA from providing reimbursement to any state, local, tribal, or territorial government, or private non-profit for activities made pursuant to a contract that purports to prohibit audits or internal reviews by the FEMA administrator or ComptrollerGeneral. b. Access to Records. The following access to records requirements applies to this contract: i. The Contractor agrees to provide the City of Everett, the FEMA Administrator, the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their authorized representatives access to any books, documents, papers, and records of the Contractor which are directly pertinent to this contract for the purposes of making audits, examinations, excerpts, and transcriptions. ii. The Contractor agrees to permit any of the foregoing partiesto reproduce by any means whatsoever or to copy excerpts and transcriptions as reasonably needed. iii. The Contractor agrees to provide the FEMA Administrator or his authorized representatives' access to construction or other work sites pertaining to the work being completed under the contract. iv. In compliance with the Disaster Recovery Act of 2018, the City of Everett and the Contractor acknowledge and agree that no language in this contract is intended to prohibit audits or internal reviews by the FEMA Administrator or the Comptroller General of the United States. ml.nna Page 16 of 19 www.fema.gov/procurement-disaster-assistance-team ;ire., toml^. 14-;