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Sneak Preview: GAO Recommends That OMB Develop Program Consolidation Guidance

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(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…

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January 23, 2015

USDA Provides Grants To Promote Cleaner Water

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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…

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January 22, 2015

Confusion Abounds Related to Unique Entity Identifier

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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…

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January 16, 2015

Sneak Preview: NYC Urged To Improve CDBG-DR Fund Oversight

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(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…

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January 15, 2015

Sneak Preview: NIH Evaluating Life Sciences Research Threats

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(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…

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January 8, 2015

OMB Makes Technical Corrections to Uniform Guidance

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Oops. Whoops. My mistake. Typo. Do-over. Got an eraser? Where’s the White-Out?

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January 6, 2015

Saying Goodbye to 2014 and Hello to 2015

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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.

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December 31, 2014

An Interim Final Rule on Grants a Week Before the Effective Date

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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…

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December 19, 2014

Uniform Guidance Countdown Continues With Interim Rule To Come

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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…

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December 15, 2014

Sneak Preview: OMB Amends Improper Payment Guidance Under Circular A-123

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(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…

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