Sneak Preview: GAO Recommends That OMB Develop Program Consolidation Guidance
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A key goal under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) uniform grant guidance is to improve program performance to achieve better outcomes; however, program consolidation is…
USDA Provides Grants To Promote Cleaner Water
It appears that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is placing a greater emphasis this year on cleaning up the nation’s watersheds. A recent USDA blog post touted that 70 percent of the 100-plus projects under in the first wave of funding…
Confusion Abounds Related to Unique Entity Identifier
One of the key technical corrections that the Office of Management and Budget and the Council on Financial Assistance Reform made in the revised uniform guidance was to remove references to the Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System…
Sneak Preview: NYC Urged To Improve CDBG-DR Fund Oversight
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) New York City’s Office of Management and Budget planned to strengthen controls over its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Assistance (CDBG-DR) reimbursements to ensure that all…
Sneak Preview: NIH Evaluating Life Sciences Research Threats
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Institutions with researchers conducting dual use research of concern (DURC) under Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and cooperative agreements…
OMB Makes Technical Corrections to Uniform Guidance
Oops. Whoops. My mistake. Typo. Do-over. Got an eraser? Where’s the White-Out?
Saying Goodbye to 2014 and Hello to 2015
So, did anything happen concerning grants this past year or was it just the same ‘ol, same ‘ol? Oh, of course, right, there was this trifling little thing called the uniform grant guidance. I think that rings a bell.
An Interim Final Rule on Grants a Week Before the Effective Date
The Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance becomes effective next Friday, so the grants community has exactly one more week to become experts on all the provisions of the guidance. But why wait until the day after Christmas…
Uniform Guidance Countdown Continues With Interim Rule To Come
Continuing on with the countdown we started last week as we march toward the implementation date of the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance, we now are 11 days away. However, just to make things more interesting, a…
Sneak Preview: OMB Amends Improper Payment Guidance Under Circular A-123
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Office of Management and Budget recently issued a memo that implements a new “improper payment compliance framework” for federal agencies. By amending Appendix C of OMB…