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FireAid also clarified that “a stipulation of the FireAid funds communicated to each grantee that not a single dollar was allowed to be spent on administrative costs to ensure maximum benefit.”

The Organizational Grant Program, which provides two years of funding to grantees, offers money for general operating costs, not just specific projects.

“The record reflects that the challenged grant terminations were likely performed en masse, without individualized analysis, and without providing grantees with reasoned explanation for the terminations,” Lin said in her order.

“They really started to shift the conversation and shift the public thinking. It was starting to get to the root of the problem,” the grantee said.

A legal declaration filed by the EPA says 377 grantees have already received formal notices of termination, and approximately 404 more will be noticed soon.