Grant funds may not be used for the following:
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Salaries
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Construction or infrastructure activities
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Purchases made prior to the grant
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Prior debts
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Military equipment
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Surveillance equipment
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Commodities and services for support of police and other law enforcement activities
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Abortion equipment and services
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Luxury goods and gambling equipment
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Weather modification equipment
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Motor vehicles - Excluded from this definition are industrial vehicles for materials handling and earthmoving, such as lift trucks, tractors, graders, scrapers, off the-highway trucks (such as off-road dump trucks) and other vehicles that are not designed for travel at normal road speeds (40 kilometers per hour and above)
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Pesticides
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Fertilizers
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Pharmaceuticals
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Contraceptives
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Medical equipment
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Items purchased in China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, or Syria
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Phones - Mobile phone, mobile phone service providers, VoIP phones (desk lines), audio conferencing service accounts
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Internet service provider
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Cloud servers
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Amazon cloud-based service
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Computers – desktops and laptops, computer monitors, tablets
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Printers, scanners, fax machines
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Infrastructure equipment – (router, switch, hub, server, firewall, encrypter), RSA tokens (SecurID)
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Portable electronic storage devices
Note: IT equipment including software or hardware not listed above will be
examined on a case-by-case basis.