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Summary Federal Award Financial Information 
19.  Budget Period Start Date 
 - End Date
20. Total Amount of Federal Funds Obligated by this Action
20a. Direct Cost Amount
20b. Indirect Cost Amount
21. Authorized Carryover
22. Offset
23.  Total Amount of Federal Funds Obligated this budget period
24.  Total Approved Cost Sharing or Matching, where applicable
25.  Total Federal and Non-Federal Approved this Budget Period 
26. Project Period  Start Date
- End Date
27. Total Amount of the Federal Award including Approved 
Cost  Sharing or Matching this Project Period
28. Authorized Treatment of Program Income
29. Grants Management Officer – Signature
Recipient Information 
Fe deral Agency Information 
10.Program Official Contact Information
 Federal Award Information 
30. Remarks
1. Recipient Name
9.  Awarding Agency Contact Information
Notice of Award
Award# 
FAIN#
Federal Award Date:
Page 1
2.  Congressional District of Recipient
3. Payment System Identifier (ID)
4. Employer Identification Number (EIN)
5. Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS)
6. Recipient’s Unique Entity Identifier
7. Project Director or Principal Investigator
8. Authorized Official
11. Award Number
12. Unique Federal Award Identification Number (FAIN)
13. Statutory Authority
14. Federal Award Project Title
15. Assistance Listing Number
16. Assistance Listing Program Title
17. Award Action Type
18. Is the Award R&D?
09/01/2021
08/31/2022
09/01/2019
ADDITIONAL COSTS
07
1866000472B9
Enhancing our Understanding of the Opioid Epidemic in Maricopa County in order to Augment Existing
Interventions
93.136
Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs
Non-Competing Continuation
No
Not Available
866000472
 Yarkasah  Paye 
N/A 
kvn7@cdc.gov 
404.718.7737
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
5 NU17CE924996-03-00
5 NU17CE924996-03-00
NU17CE924996
NU17CE924996
07/29/2021
CDC Office of Financial Resources
Ms. Stephanie Latham 
Team Lead, Grants Management Officer
Mr. Max  Porter
Executive Director
maxporter@mail.maricopa.gov
602-506-6614
MARICOPA, COUNTY OF 
1645 E Roosevelt St 
Phoenix, AZ 85006-3638 
602-506-1829
Ms. Tracy  Cruickshank 
Healthcare Innovation Manager
tracy.cruickshank@maricopa.gov
602-526-0678
$2,280,555.00
$408,405.00
08/31/2022
$2,247,897.00
$0.00
$0.00
$441,063.00
$0.00
Section 311(c)(1) of the PHS Act (42 USC § 243(c)(1))
602062515
Ms. Daryl Barksdale 
GMS 
xxj8@cdc.gov 
770-488-1087
$2,247,897.00
C-86-20-007-3-02

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33. Approved Budget
(Excludes Direct Assistance) 
I. Financial Assistance from the Federal Awarding Agency Only 
II. Total project costs including grant funds and all other financial participation
a. Salaries and Wages
b. Fringe Benefits 
c.  Total Personnel Costs 
d. Equipment 
e. Supplies 
f.
Travel 
g. Construction 
h. Other 
i.
Contractual 
j.  TOTAL DIRECT COSTS 
INDIRECT COSTS 
TOTAL APPROVED BUDGET 
m. Federal Share 
n. Non-Federal Share 
34.  Accounting Classification Codes
k.
l.
Not Available
31. Assistance Type
32. Type of Award
Notice of Award
Award# 
FAIN#
Federal Award Date:
Recipient Information
Recipient Name
Congressional District of Recipient 
Payment Account Number and Type 
Employer Identification Number (EIN) Data 
Universal Numbering System (DUNS) 
Recipient’s Unique Entity Identifier 
$713,720.00
$318,343.00
$1,032,063.00
$0.00
$12,140.00
$49,065.00
$0.00
$67,428.00
$1,119,859.00
$2,280,555.00
$2,280,555.00
$408,405.00
$408,405.00
$2,688,960.00
$2,688,960.00
$2,688,960.00
$2,688,960.00
$0.00
$0.00
07/29/2021
5 NU17CE924996-03-00
NU17CE924996
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MARICOPA, COUNTY OF 
1645 E Roosevelt St 
Phoenix, AZ 85006-3638 
602-506-1829
Cooperative Agreement
07
602062515
866000472
1866000472B9
Other
FY-ACCOUNT NO.
DOCUMENT NO.
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
OBJECT CLASS
AMT ACTION FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
APPROPRIATION
1-9390BX6
19NU17CE924996OPCE
CE
41.51
$2,247,897.00
75-21-0952

Direct Assistance
BUDGET CATEGORIES
PREVIOUS AMOUNT (A)
AMOUNT THIS ACTION (B)
TOTAL (A + B)
Personnel
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Fringe Benefits
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Travel
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Equipment
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Supplies
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Contractual
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Construction
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Other
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
Total
$0.00
$0.00
$0.00
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Notice of Award
Award# 
FAIN#
Federal Award Date: 07/29/2021
5 NU17CE924996-03-00
NU17CE924996
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
FOR COUNTY:
________________________________________
Jack Sellers, Chairman                                     Date
Board of Supervisor
ATTEST TO:
_______________________________________
Clerk of the Board                                           Date
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_______________________________________
Attorney of Maricopa County                     Date

AWARD ATTACHMENTS
MARICOPA, COUNTY OF
5 NU17CE924996-03-00
Terms and Conditions
1.
OD2A Special Terms and Conditions
2.

AWARD INFORMATION 
Incorporation:  In addition to the federal laws, regulations, policies, and CDC General Terms 
and Conditions for Non-research awards at 
https://www.cdc.gov/grants/federalregulationspolicies/index.html, the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC) hereby incorporates Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) 
number CE19-1904, entitled Overdose Data to Action, and application dated May 10, 2021, as may 
be amended, which are hereby made a part of this Non-research award, hereinafter referred to 
as the Notice of Award (NoA). 
Approved Funding:  Funding in the amount of $2,688,960, is approved for the Year 03   budget 
period, which is September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022. All future year funding will be based 
on satisfactory programmatic progress and the availability of funds. 
The federal award amount is subject to adjustment based on total allowable costs incurred 
and/or the value of any third party in-kind contribution when applicable. 
Note: Refer to the Payment Information section for Payment Management System (PMS) 
subaccount information.  
Component/Project Funding: The NOFO provides for the funding of multiple components 
under this award.  The approved component funding levels for this notice of award are: 
NOFO Component 
Amount 
Surveillance 
$ 400,000 
Prevention 
$ 2,288,960 
Financial Assistance Mechanism: Cooperative Agreement 
Substantial Involvement by CDC:  This is a cooperative agreement and CDC will have 
substantial programmatic involvement after the award is made.  Substantial involvement is in 
addition to all post-award monitoring, technical assistance, and performance reviews 
undertaken in the normal course of stewardship of federal funds.   
CDC program staff will assist, coordinate, or participate in carrying out effort under the award, 
and recipients agree to the responsibilities therein, as detailed in the NOFO. CDC program 
support to recipients will help ensure the success of the cooperative agreement by: 
•
Providing cross-site and recipient-specific surveillance technical assistance, such as
providing tools to identify nonfatal and fatal drug poisonings using ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-
CM, text searches of ED chief complaint and ICD-10 cause of death codes;
•
Providing technical assistance to revise annual work plans;
•
Assisting in advancing program activities to achieve project outcomes;
•
Providing scientific subject matter expertise and resources;
•
Collaborating with recipients to develop evaluation plans that align with CDC evaluation
activities;
•
Providing technical assistance on recipient’s evaluation and performance measurement
plan;
•
Providing technical assistance to define and operationalize performance measures;
•
Facilitating the sharing of information among recipients;

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•
Participating in relevant meetings, committees, conference calls, and working groups
related to the cooperative agreement requirements to achieve outcomes;
•
Coordinating communication and program linkages with other CDC programs and
Federal agencies, such as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Food
and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Department of Justice
(DOJ), and the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC);
•
Translating and disseminating lessons learned through publications, meetings,
surveillance measures and other means on promising and best practices to expand the
evidence base;
•
Providing guidance on SUDORS data abstraction, use of necessary data sharing
platforms (e.g. NVDRS, NSSP ESSENCE) and CDC templates to collect ED data;
•
Supporting use of CDC ED case definitions by providing recipients computer
programming code such as SAS, R, and ESSENCE to implement the cases definitions if
resources are available;
•
Providing ongoing data quality reviews and feedback on required ED and drug overdose
death data submissions; and
•
Providing technical assistance on data management plans.
Use of Estimated Unobligated Funds: This NoA includes use of Year 02 estimated 
unobligated funds in the amount of $441,063, which has been applied as an offset to the 
currently approved funding level for this budget period.  The use of estimated unobligated funds 
is approved based on the Year 02 Interim Federal Financial Report (FFR) dated May 6, 
2021.  The amount of this NoA will be subject to reduction if the final amount of unobligated 
funds is less than the amount of unobligated funds reported on the referenced FFR.   
Budget Revision Requirement:  By October 1, 2021 the recipient must submit a revised 
budget with a narrative justification or the following costs: 
1) Fringe Benefits – Provide calculations; information provided shows fringe rate
should be approximately 20% but amounts are closer to 50%. 
2) Contracts – Method of selection and itemized budgets needed for current
contracts. Once selected, the TBD contract cost must be submitted to the CDC 
before cost can be expended. 
Failure to submit the required information in a timely manner may adversely affect the future 
funding of this project.  If the information cannot be provided by the due date, you are required 
to contact the GMS/GMO identified in the CDC Staff Contacts section of this notice before the 
due date.  
Expanded Authority: The recipient is permitted the following expanded authority in the 
administration of the award.  
☒ Carryover of unobligated balances from one budget period to a subsequent budget period. 
Unobligated funds may be used for purposes within the scope of the project as originally 
approved.  Recipients will report use, or intended use, of unobligated funds in Section 12 
“Remarks” of the annual Federal Financial Report.  If the GMO determines that some or all of
the unobligated funds are not necessary to complete the project, the GMO may restrict the 
recipient’s authority to automatically carry over unobligated balances in the future, use the

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balance to reduce or offset CDC funding for a subsequent budget period, or use a 
combination of these actions. 
Program Income: Any program income generated under this grant or cooperative agreement 
will be used in accordance with the Addition alternative. 
Addition alternative: Under this alternative, program income is added to the funds committed to 
the project/program and is used to further eligible project/program objectives. 
Note: The disposition of program income must have written prior approval from the GMO. 
FUNDING RESTRICTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Restrictions: 
•
Recipients may not use funds for research.
•
Recipients may not use funds for clinical care except as allowed by law.
•
Recipients may use funds only for reasonable program purposes, including personnel,
travel, supplies, and services.
•
Generally, recipients may not use funds to purchase furniture or equipment. Any such
proposed spending must be clearly identified in the budget.
•
Reimbursement of pre-award costs generally is not allowed, unless the CDC provides
written approval to the recipient.
•
Other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, no funds may
be used for:
o publicity or propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or use of any
material designed to support or defeat the enactment of legislation before any 
legislative body  
o the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such
recipient, related to any activity designed to influence the enactment of legislation, 
appropriations, regulation, administrative action, or Executive order68 of 88 
proposed or pending before any legislative body 
•
See Additional Requirement (AR) 12 for detailed guidance on this prohibition and
additional guidance on lobbying for CDC recipients.
•
The direct and primary recipient in a cooperative agreement program must perform a
substantial role in carrying out project outcomes and not merely serve as a conduit for
an award to another party or provider who is ineligible.
•
In accordance with the United States Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy,
all non-governmental organization (NGO) applicants acknowledge that foreign NGOs
that receive funds provided through this award, either as a prime recipient or
subrecipient, are strictly prohibited, regardless of the source of funds, from performing
abortions as a method of family planning or engaging in any activity that promotes
abortion as a method of family planning, or to provide financial support to any other
foreign non-governmental organization that conducts such activities. See Additional
Requirement (AR) 35 for applicability
(https://www.cdc.gov/grants/additionalrequirements/ar-35.html).
•
Program funds cannot be used for purchasing naloxone, implementing or expanding
drug “take back” programs or other drug disposal programs (e.g. drop boxes or disposal
bags), purchasing fentanyl test strips, or directly funding or expanding direct provision of
substance abuse treatment programs. Such activities are outside the scope of this

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NOFO 
 
Indirect Costs: Indirect costs are approved based on the recipient’s approved Cost Allocation 
Plan dated July 1, 2020. 
 
REPORTING REQUIREMENTS 
 
Required Disclosures for Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System 
(FAPIIS): Consistent with 45 CFR 75.113, applicants and recipients must disclose in a timely 
manner, in writing to the CDC, with a copy to the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), all 
information related to violations of federal criminal law involving fraud, bribery, or gratuity 
violations potentially affecting the federal award.  Subrecipients must disclose, in a timely 
manner in writing to the prime recipient (pass through entity) and the HHS OIG, all information 
related to violations of federal criminal law involving fraud, bribery, or gratuity violations 
potentially affecting the federal award.   Disclosures must be sent in writing to the CDC and to 
the HHS OIG at the following addresses: 
CDC, Office of Grants Services 
Daryl Barksdale, Grants Management Officer/Specialist 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
Branch 5 Supporting Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention 
2960 Brandywine Road 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341  
Email: DBarksdale@cdc.gov (Include “Mandatory Grant Disclosures” in subject line) 
 
AND 
 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
Office of the Inspector General 
ATTN: Mandatory Grant Disclosures, Intake Coordinator 
330 Independence Avenue, SW  
Cohen Building, Room 5527 
Washington, DC  20201 
 
Fax: (202)-205-0604 (Include “Mandatory Grant Disclosures” in subject line) or 
Email: MandatoryGranteeDisclosures@oig.hhs.gov 
 
Recipients must include this mandatory disclosure requirement in all subawards and contracts 
under this award. 
 
Failure to make required disclosures can result in any of the remedies described in 45 CFR 
75.371.  Remedies for noncompliance, including suspension or debarment (See 2 CFR parts 
180 and 376, and 31 U.S.C. 3321). 
 
CDC is required to report any termination of a federal award prior to the end of the period of 
performance due to material failure to comply with the terms and conditions of this award in the 
OMB-designated integrity and performance system accessible through SAM (currently FAPIIS). 
(45 CFR 75.372(b))  CDC must also notify the recipient if the federal award is terminated for 
failure to comply with the federal statutes, regulations, or terms and conditions of the federal 
award. (45 CFR 75.373(b))

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PROGRAM OR FUNDING GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 
CE19-1904 Overdose to Action Prorgram Requirements: See CE19-1904 Overdose Data to 
Action Terms and Conditions attached to this Notice of Award. 
PAYMENT INFORMATION 
The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) maintains a toll-free number (1-800-HHS-TIPS [1-
800-447-8477]) for receiving information concerning fraud, waste, or abuse under grants and 
cooperative agreements. Information also may be submitted by e-mail to hhstips@oig.hhs.gov or 
by mail to Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, Attn: 
HOTLINE, 330 Independence Ave., SW, Washington DC 20201. Such reports are treated as 
sensitive material and submitters may decline to give their names if they choose to remain 
anonymous. 
Payment Management System Subaccount: Funds awarded in support of approved activities 
have been obligated in a subaccount in the PMS, herein identified as the “P  Account”.  Funds
must be used in support of approved activities in the NOFO and the approved application.  
The grant document number identified on the bottom of Page 1 of the Notice of Award must be 
known in order to draw down funds. 
CDC Staff Contacts 
Grants Management Specialist: The GMS is the federal staff member responsible for the day-
to-day management of grants and cooperative agreements.  The GMS is the primary contact of 
recipients for business and administrative matters pertinent to grant awards.   
GMS Contact: 
Daryl Barksdale, Grants Management Specialist  
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
Branch 5 Supporting Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention 
2960 Brandywine Road 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341  
Telephone: 770-488-1087 
Email: DBarksdale@cdc.gov 
Program/Project Officer: The PO is the federal official responsible for monitoring the 
programmatic, scientific, and/or technical aspects of grants and cooperative agreements, as 
well as contributing to the effort of the award under cooperative agreements. 
Programmatic Contact: 
Peter Paye, Project Officer  
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 
4770 Buford Highway 
Atlanta, Georgia 30341  
Telephone: 404.498.1839 
Email: KVN7@cdc.gov

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Grants Management Officer: The GMO is the federal official responsible for the business and 
other non-programmatic aspects of grant awards. The GMO is the only official authorized to 
obligate federal funds and is responsible for signing the NoA, including revisions to the NoA that 
change the terms and conditions.  The GMO serves as the counterpart to the business officer of 
the recipient organization. 
GMOContact: 
Stephanie Latham, Grants Management Officer 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
Branch 5 Supporting Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention 
2960 Brandywine Road MS.E-01 
Atlanta, GA 30341 
Telephone: 770-488-2917 
Fax: 404-248-4180 
Email: fzv6@cdc.gov

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CE19-1904 Overdose Data to Action Terms and Conditions 
1 
Surveillance Activities (Strategy 1-3) 
Recipients must meet reporting timelines for the Surveillance Strategies as outlined in the NOFO and in Appendix 3 of the 
NOFO. OD2A applicants must demonstrate capacity to meet all of the requirements within the selected tier and optional 
activities in each Surveillance Strategy. Applicants are expected to meet reporting deadlines as stated for each budget year. 
States will be held accountable for the requirements in the tier for which they apply. Failure to meet the required reporting 
timelines for the selected tier and any optional activities selected under Strategy 1 and Strategy 2 may result in corrective 
action. Failure to meet reporting requirements for Strategy 3 projects may also result in corrective action. States may drop 
tiers and/or optional activities if they fail to meet reporting timelines. Decisions on surveillance tier shifts or the elimination 
of optional activities should be made in collaboration with your CDC Science and Project Officers. 
2 
Prevention Activities 
2.1 
PDMP (Strategy 4) 
Control of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Data 
The recipient shall comply with Additional Requirement 25 and comply with their Data Management Plan (DMP), which 
includes plans for making data accessible and for archiving and long-term preservation of the data collected or acquired 
under this award (See additional requirements).  The recipient shall also retain all title held in controlled substance - or 
prescription data (“PDMP data”), collected or acquired with federal funds, that are stored in a database operated by or 
under the oversight of the recipient, whether or not the PDMP data are in existence at the date of award acceptance or 
compiled thereafter during this award’s performance period. Upon request by the recipient at any time, all contractors and 
subrecipients (at any tier) shall promptly deliver to recipient the PDMP data in electronic format as exists on the date of the 
request by the recipient. The recipient shall ensure that any and all contractors and subrecipients (at any tier) acknowledge 
that the recipient retains ownership of and control over the PDMP data. 
Enhanced PDMP (see table 4.2 in NOFO) 
Only states and territories that oversee PDMPs can receive enhanced PDMP dollars. In cases where a state does not have a 
prescription drug monitoring program, a county, consortium, or other unit of local government within the state that has a 
prescription drug monitoring program shall be treated as a state for the purpose of this activity. 
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Data Sharing System 
For the purposes of this condition, a “PDMP system” is a local- or state-based data system that received federal financial
assistance since 2002 under an award under this program for the reporting, collection, and use of PDMP data. “PDMP data” 
means controlled substance- or prescription data. “The PDMP hub” means Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) designated 
PDMP data sharing system. 
•
The recipient must ensure that the recipient’s PDMP system has the capacity to exchange data with other PDMP
systems via the PDMP hub.
•
The recipient must allow other PDMP systems to exchange data via a direct connection to the PDMP hub with the
recipient’s system at no cost to the other PDMP systems or the federal government and regardless of what
interstate data exchange system the recipient chooses to use.
•
The recipient must ensure that this requirement is reflected in all contracts or subawards, at any tier, with any
vendor or subrecipient, at any tier, under this award.
•
The recipient must ensure that all contracts or subawards, at any tier, with any vendor or subrecipient, at any tier,
working on the recipient’s PDMP system provides the recipient with the option to use and connect to the PDMP
hub to exchange PDMP data at the lower of—(1) actual cost; or (2) what would be (or in fact is) charged by the
vendor or subrecipient for the use of any data exchange hub substantially equivalent to the PDMP hub.
•
Within ninety (90) days of accepting this award, the recipient must inform BJA of whether its PDMP system is
connected to the PDMP hub or not. Failure to connect to BJA’s designated PDMP data sharing hub may result in a
failure to comply with the terms and conditions of the award.  Additional conditions, and possibly other actions,

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such as temporary withholding of payments pending correction, may be imposed in accordance with applicable 
award regulations.   
• 
The recipient must notify BJA in writing within seven (7) business days if the connection to the PDMP hub 
experiences a sustained interruption of service lasting longer than six (6) hours. 
• 
Nothing in this condition prohibits the recipient from using or not using any data exchange system that is 
otherwise consistent with the requirements of this award (including those contained in this condition). 
• 
The provisions of this condition must be included in any subaward (at any tier). 
Connection to the Hub (RxCheck) 
As stated, the recipient must allow other PDMP systems to exchange data via a direct connection to the PDMP hub. For 
these purposes, states/territories are required to use RxCheck to respond to a state that has initiated a request via RxCheck 
hub, but are not required to use RxCheck for any inter- or intrastate PDMP requests that the state itself initiates. The award 
conditions allow each state/territory to determine its preferred hub for initiating inter- and intrastate data sharing with 
another state or states. The award conditions require a state/territory to establish and maintain a connection to RxCheck in 
order to ensure it can receive and respond to requests from states that have initiated a request using RxCheck hub (in 
accordance with state law). For OD2A Special Conditions a “live” connection to RxCheck, is determined by BJA. 
2.2 
 Peer-2-Peer Learning Coordinators (Optional Prevention Component) 
“Peers” refer to OD2A recipients in other jurisdictions. Therefore, Peer-to-Peer curriculum and activities cannot be limited 
to activities within the recipient's own jurisdiction and must be offered to those in other jurisdictions. 
3 
Recipient Self Assessments and Evaluation Plans 
OD2A recipients are required to complete the annual OD2A Self-Assessment survey by August 31, 2021.  An individualized 
link was shared with each jurisdiction by July 1, 2021 and is provided in your technical review. This survey will cover year 2 
of your OD2A work.  The Qualtrics online survey will display each recipient’s responses from the Year 1 assessment, please 
change your responses to reflect any changes in capacity. 
Evaluation plans for year 3 are due in the Partners Portal 90 days after the start of the budget period. You will be notified if 
there is a change in the due date. 
4 
Fentanyl Test Strips  
On April 7, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that federal funding may now 
be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS) in an effort to help curb the dramatic spike in drug overdose 
deaths largely driven by the use of strong synthetic opioids, including illicitly manufactured fentanyl. This change 
applies to all federal grant programs as long as the purchase of FTS is consistent with the purpose of the 
program. 
Recipients are permitted to spend up to $100,000 per year to purchase fentanyl test strips to 
support surveillance and prevention projects. Recipients may revise their budgets to include the purchase of 
fentanyl test strips. Requests for purchases greater than $100,000 will be handled on a case-by-case basis in 
discussion with CDC. Please alert your Project Officer if you are planning to request spending more than 
$100,000 on fentanyl test strips. 
 
Please refer to Fentanyl Test Strip Guidance dated May 10th for more details. 
5 
Unallowable Activities 
Please note that regardless of the reviewer comments on the quality of a project proposal, the following activities are NOT 
allowable: 
• 
Prohibited purchases: Naloxone/Narcan, syringes, furniture or equipment.

3 
o
Harm reduction and linkage to care activities are acceptable as long as O2DA funds are not used for
prohibited purchases.
•
HIV/HCV/other STD/STI testing.
•
Drug disposal.  This includes Implementing or expanding drug disposal programs or drug take back programs, drug
drop box, drug disposal bags.
•
The provision of medical/clinical care.
•
Wastewater analysis, including testing vendors, sewage testing and wastewater testing.
•
Research.
•
Direct funding for the provision of substance use disorder treatment.
•
The prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as a stand-alone activity.  However, activities related to
ACEs are allowable if they pertain to establishing linkage to care, or to providing training to public safety and first
responders on trauma-informed care.
•
Public safety activities that do not include clear overlap/collaboration with public health partner and objectives.
Other unallowables: 
•
Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD): Funds can be used to support training and education related to
treating opioid use disorder (OUD). However, OD2A funds cannot be used to pay for fees associated with obtaining
a state medical license nor those associated with registration with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to
prescribe controlled substances, necessary precursors to obtaining a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine to treat
OUD. This applies to both direct reimbursements and contracts. If training, medical license, and/or DEA registration
fee activities occur together, it must be clear that OD2A funds are not being used to cover the medical license nor
DEA registration fees themselves. Other funding sources can be used to cover those fees.
•
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS): Funding the collection of NAS surveillance data is not allowable unless the
activities are covered under the following examples (noted in the FAQs):
o
Surveillance of linkage to care during or after pregnancy for mothers who use opioids during pregnancy.
o
Tracking drug use patterns, overdose history, and linkage to treatment and risk reduction services for
pregnant women.
o
Linking data sources on pregnant women available at the state and local level.
o
Prevention strategies and activities for pregnant women, infants born with NAS, and for healthcare
provider/clinician support and education.
•
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)/Hepatitis C surveillance (HCV): Funding collection of HIV-related and
HCV-related surveillance data is not allowable unless the activities are covered under the following examples:
o
Linking HIV/HCV datasets with drug overdose datasets.
o
Adding questions about substance use and drug overdose to interviews of people who newly acquired HIV
and/or HCV conducted as part of reportable diseases surveillance.
o
Conducting interviews about substance use and drug overdose with people who have HIV and HCV
because these groups are at high-risk of injection drug use.
Activities that must be funded under OD2A prevention and are unallowable under surveillance 
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Implementing prevention programs: A recipient must fund prevention programs with OD2A prevention funds and
not OD2A surveillance funds. For instance, the following activities can only be funded with OD2A prevention funds:
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Hiring peer navigators to link people treated for an overdose in the emergency department with services.
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Implementing a pilot project to enhance coordination of treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (e.g.,
HIV) and substance use disorders due to their frequent co-occurrence.
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Forming a coalition of harm reduction groups in a state to create a strategic plan to expand and enhance
harm reduction related to injection drug use.
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Collecting or expanding data collection of EMS data using ODMAP: Strategy 8 explicitly lists collecting first
responder data (e.g., EMS and law enforcement) through ODMAP as a suggested activity: “Implement High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s (HIDTA) Overdose Detection Mapping Application (ODMAP).” (p. 32)
Consequently, OD2A prevention funding should be used to fund first responder data collection activities and not

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OD2A surveillance funding. Strategy 3 surveillance funding may be used to link EMS data collected in ODMAP to 
other data sources (e.g., emergency department data, treatment data, or workers compensation data). 
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Overdose Fatality Reviews (OFR): For the purposes of this NOFO, Overdose Fatality Reviews are considered a
prevention activity and not a surveillance activity. On page 26, Overdose Fatality Review is identified as a
suggested activity related to Strategy 5: Integration of State and Local Prevention and Response Efforts.