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Exhibit C page 1 of 2 HHS CERTIFICATION REGARDING DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE REQUIREMENTS: GRANTEES OTHER THAN INDIVIDUALS Instructions for Certification By signing and/or submitting this application or grant agreement, the grantee is providing the certification set out below. 1) This certification is required by regulations implementing the Drug -Free Act of 1988, 45 CFR Part 78, Subpart F. The regulations, published in the May 25. 1990 Federal Register, require certification by grantees that they will maintain a drug-free workplsee. The certification set out below is a material representation of fact upon which reliance wig be placed when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) dew.. .nes to award the grant. If it is later determined that the grantee knowingly rendered a false certification, or otherwise violates the requirements of the Drug-Frse Workplace Act. HSS. in addition to any other remedies available to the Federal Government, may take aeoon authorized under the Drug -Free Workplace Act. 2) Workplaces under grams. for gramses other than individuals. need not be identified on the certification. If known, they may be identified in the gram application. If the grantee does not identify the workplaces at the time of application, or upon award, if there is no application, the grantee must keep the identity of the workplaces) on file in its office and make the information available for Federal inspection. Failure to identify all known workplaces constitutes a violation of the grantee's drug-free workplace requirements. 3) Workplace identifications must include the actual address of buildings for parts of buildings) or other sites where work under the gram takes place. Categorical descriptions may be used (e.g., aY vehicles of a mass trwit authority or State highway department while in operation, State employees in each local unemployment office, performers in concert halls or radio studios). 41 It the workplace identified to the agency changes during the performance of the gram, the grantee shall inform the agency of the enange(s). if it previously identified the workplaces in question (see above). 51 DMinitions of terms in the Nonproc:urament Suspension and Debarment common rule and Drug -Free Workplace common rule apply to this certification. Grantees' attention is called, in particular, to the following definitions tram thus ruin: "Controlled substance" means a controlled substance in Schedules I through V of the Controlled Substances Act t21 U.S.C. 212) and as further defined by regulation (21 CFR 1308.11 through 1308.15): *Conviction' moans a finding of guilt (including a piss of nolo comendsrs) or imposition of sentence, or both, by any judicial body charged with the responsibility to determine violations of the Fedard or State criminal drug sunutes: •Criminal drug statute' means a Federal or non -Federal criminal states involving the manufacture, distribution. dispensing, use. or possession of any controlled substance: 'Emptoyee" means the employee of a grantee directly engaged in the performance of work under a grant, including: (i) All direct emerge employees: (ii) All Indirect charge employees unless their impact or involvement Is insignificant to the performance of the gram: and, (iii) Temporary personnel and consultants who are directly, engaged in the performance of work under the grant and who are on the grantee's payroll. This definition does not include workers not on the payroll of the grantee (e.g., volunteers. even if used to meet a matching requirement: consultants or indspendem contractors not on the grantee's payroll: or employees of subrecipiertts or subcontractors In covered workplaceal.