As used in this Part:

(a) Department.

The Department of State.

(b) Entitlement funds.

The statutory allocation proportion of CSBG funds received by a “grantee” under P.L. 97-35, as amended, and Executive Law, section 159-i, as amended.

(c) Grantee.

Any public or private “grantee” as defined in Executive Law, section 159-e(1), as amended.

(d) Suspension.

A decision for cause by the department to temporarily curtail the statutory allocation of CSBG entitlement funds in part prior to the termination date of a CSBG entitlement contract.

(e) Termination.

A decision for cause by the department that the present or future CSBG funding to a CSBG grantee, which received CSBG entitlement funds in the previous fiscal year, shall be permanently terminated, in whole or in part.