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<h2 style="background:white">Many Agencies Have Yet to Adopt OMB’s Uniform Guidance as Final<o:p></o:p></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555">November 4, 2015 – 11:26 am |
<span class="author">By <a href="http://fundingattractions.blogs.thompson.com/author/jerryashworth/" title="View all posts by Jerry Ashworth">
Jerry Ashworth</a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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are now about a month and a half away from the one-year anniversary of the issuance in the Dec. 19, 2014,
<i>Federal Register</i> of the joint interim final rule in which 28 federal agencies and offices implemented the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance. The key word to the previous sentence that we want to address here is the word “interim.”
The agencies accepted public comments on their implementation of the uniform guidance, including specific agency additions and exceptions, before adopting them as final.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">Now we are almost 11 months removed from the issuance of the interim rule, and how many of those agencies have adopted their regulations as final? After
reviewing the <i>Federal Register</i> notices over the last several months, we count only 13 agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">The National Science Foundation has incorporated the uniform guidance into its
<i>Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide</i>. The following are the other 12 agencies and offices that have adopted their regulations as final, along with the date they announced their final rule in the
<i>Federal Register</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Department of Education, Nov. 2;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Environmental Protection Agency, Oct 9;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Department of Energy, Sept. 24;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Office of National Drug Control Policy, Sept. 23;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Institute of Museum and Library Services, Sept. 21;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">U.S. Agency for International Development, Sept. 17;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sept. 16;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">National Endowment for the Humanities, Sept. 16;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">National Archives and Records Administration, Aug. 25;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Department of Veterans Affairs, July 22;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">National Endowment for the Arts, June 29; and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Department of State, June 2.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">To this point,
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">more than half of the original 28 agencies and offices still have not adopted their regulations as final</span>. This may be understandable for an agency like the Department of Labor, which had numerous additions
and exceptions in their interim final rule and still may be assessing comments to those exceptions. But other agencies, such as the Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development essentially implemented the uniform guidance into
their regulations with no additions or exceptions. One would have expected those agencies to have adopted them as final by now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">To clarify, a point should be made to that although the agencies may not have completely adopted their regulations
as final, their regulations implementing the uniform guidance are effective for funding received by nonfederal agencies as of Dec. 26, 2014.</span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#333333">We’ll continue to keep a close eye on the
<i>Federal Register</i> to let you know when the remaining federal agencies adopt their regulations as final. Hopefully, many of the remaining agencies will finalize them before the year is out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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