[dragonwriter]

Grant agreements are not statutes but contracts, and canons of statutory interpretation do not apply to contracts.

[eirikbakke]

Perhaps a better source (but IANAL):

"Judges frequently invoke anti-redundancy principles in the interpretation of legal language, whether it appears in classic private-law documents such as contracts or classic public law-documents such as constitutions and statutes."

Redundancy: When Law Repeats Itself, John M. Golden (2016)