The department shall take the following actions with regard to the tracking of indirect oversight costs:

(a)  Ensure that pro rata costs are allocated appropriately to all departmental activities, so that the department’s program will only bear these pro rata costs in proportion to the benefits received by potentially responsible parties.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 25269.3

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.

(b)  Routinely include operating expenses in the indirect oversight costs and allocate those expenses using processes that ensure that the department’s program only bears indirect oversight costs in proportion to the benefits received by potentially responsible parties.

(c)  Exclude, from indirect oversight costs, the costs of grant development and administration, fee administration, contract development and administration, and public and governmental inquiries.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 576, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1997.)