Federal Register: August 2, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 148)
DOCID: fr02au07-132 FR Doc E7-15044
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Management and Budget Office
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr02au07-132
ACTION: Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Amending Federal Financial Assistance-Related Forms to Include Universal Identifier
DATES: Comments are due by September 4, 2007.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to authorize each Federal agency that receives applications for Federal financial assistance to add a field for the applicant's Dun and Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number to application forms previously approved by OMB. This proposed update would broaden the directive's effect to all forms of Federal financial assistance covered by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (the ``Act'') including grants, subgrants, loans, awards, cooperative agreements, and other forms of financial assistance.
SUMMARY:
Federal financial assistance-related forms amended to include universal identifier,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
proposes to authorize each Federal agency that receives applications
for Federal financial assistance to add a field for the applicant's Dun
and Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number to
application forms previously approved by OMB. The intent of authorizing
agencies to add the field without additional OMB approval is to enable
the agencies to require applicants other than individual persons to
provide DUNS numbers for all applications submitted on or after October
1, 2007. This proposal thereby would update the policy in the OMB
directive issued on June 27, 2003 [68 FR 38403], ``Use of a Universal
Identifier by Grant Applicants.'' That directive authorized agencies to
add the DUNS number as a required field for applications leading to the
award of two specific forms of Federal financial assistance: Grants and
cooperative agreements. This proposed update would broaden the
directive's effect to all forms of Federal financial assistance covered
by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (the
``Act'') including grants, subgrants, loans, awards, cooperative
agreements, and other forms of financial assistance. The reason for the
proposed update is that the DUNS number will be used as the unique
identifier for recipient entities that is required by the Federal
Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109282).
Under that Act, OMB must ensure the establishment and maintenance of a location on the World Wide Web
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through which the public may access and search data on agencies'
awards. The unique identifier of the recipient entity is one of the
data elements that the Act requires for each award. Note that the
Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition
Regulations Council (Councils) are addressing the Federal Funding
Accountability and Transparency Act requirements for contracts,
subcontracts, purchase orders, task orders and delivery orders under separate Federal Register notices.
Danny Werfel,
Deputy Controller.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Marguerite Pridgen at the addresses noted above.
Authority: Sec. 2, Pub. L. 109282, 102 Stat. 1186.