Policy Statements

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Final Notices

• M-08-03, Implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act; Grants and Cooperative Agreements (November 5, 2007) (13 pages, 76 kb)
  
  
• Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations, Revisions to Circular A-133 (June 26, 2007) (2 pages, 78 kb)
  
  
• Guidance for Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) (November 15, 2006) (2 pages, 73 kb)
  • Full Text of the Guidance for Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) PDF (32 pages, 179 kb) or Word
    
    
• M-06-26, Suspension and Debarment, Administrative Agreements, and Compelling Reason Determinations (August 31, 2006) (1 page, 32 kb)
  
  
• Grants Policy Streamlining Overview on Nonprocurement Debarment and Suspension and Cost Principles Guidance (August 31, 2005) (3 pages, 125 kb)
  • Guidance for Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement) (18 pages, 280 kb)
  • Cost Principes for Educational Institutions (OMB Circular A-21) (30 pages, 384 kb)
  • Cost Principles for State, Local, and Indian Tribal Governments (OMB Circular A-87) (18 pages, 362 kb)
  • Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations (OMB Circular A-122) (17 pages, 235 kb)
    
    
• M-04-14, FY 2004 Grants.gov Funding and Advance Planning Guidance for FY 2005 – FY 2006 (June 18, 2004) (5 pages, 60 kb)
  
  
• Governmentwide Guidance for Grants and Agreements; Federal Agency Regulations for Grants and Agreements; Final Rule (May 11, 2004) (18 pages, 162 kb)
  
  
• Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements With Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-Profit Organizations (OMB Circular A–110) (May 11, 2004) (18 pges, 190 kb)
  
  
• Comments and Responses - Final Cost Revisions (May 10, 2004)
  
  
• Cost Revisions Comparison Chart (May 10, 2004) (63 pages, 306 kb)
  
  
• Cost Principles for Educational Institutions; State, Local, and Indian Tribal Governments; and Non-Profit Organizations (May 10, 2004) (27 pages, 386 kb)
  
  
• OMB Circular A–133 Information Collection Under OMB Review (March 12, 2004) (3 pages, 62 kb)
  
  
• M-04-05, Clarification of Passback Language to Grant-Making Agencies (January 7, 2004)
  
  
• Governmentwide Debarment and Suspension (Nonprocurement), and Requirements for Drug-Free Workplace (Grants); Rules (Final and Interim Final) (November 26, 2003) (14 pages, 1,205 kb)
  
  
• M-04-01, OMB Issues Grants.gov FIND Policy (October 15, 2003)
  
  
• Office of Federal Financial Management Policy Directive on Use of Grants.Gov FIND (October 8, 2003) (7 pages, 103 kb)
  
  
• M-03-16, OMB Issues Grants Management Policies (July 15, 2003) (1 page, 91 kb)
  
  
• Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations (Revision of Circular No. A-133) (June 27, 2003) [68 FR 38401] (2 pages, 65 kb)
  
  
• Use of a Universal Identifer by Grant Applicants (June 27, 2003) [68 FR 38402] (4 pages, 80 kb)
  
  
• Final Policy Directive on Financial Assistance Program Announcements (June 23, 2003) [68 FR 37370] (11 pages, 193 kb)
  
  
• Standard Data Elements for Electronically Posting Synopses of Federal Agencies' Financial Assistance Announcements at Grants.gov FIND (June 23, 2003) [68 FR 37379] (7 pages, 91 kb)
  
  
• OMB Guidance on Project Labor Agreement Executive Order (October 18, 2002)
  
  
• Standardizing Grant Announcements (September 11, 2002)
  
  
• Notice about Pooled Payments Under OMB Circular A-110, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit Organizations (August 12, 2002) [67 FR 52547]
  
  
• Exemption for Public Law 106-107 (March 7, 2001)
  
  
• M-01-06, Clarification of OMB A-21 Treatment of Voluntary Uncommitted Cost Sharing and Tuition Remission Costs (January 5, 2001) HTML or PDF (4 pages, 13 kb)
  
  
• Governmentwide Guidance for New Restrictions on Lobbying
• Interim Final Amendments to OMB’s Governmentwide Guidance on Lobbying (January 19, 1996) (2 pages, 34 kb)
• Notice (January 15, 1992) (2 pages, 260 kb)
• Notice (June 15, 1990) (3 pages, 337 kb)
• Interim Final Guidance (December 20, 1989) (28 pages, 1,673 kb)

Proposed Policies

• Amending Federal Financial Assistance-Related Forms to Include Universal Identifier (August 2, 2007) [72 FR 42444] (2 page, 81 kb)
  
  
• Proposed Policy on Research and Research-Related Grant Terms and Conditions (January 28, 2005) [70 FR 4159] (3 pages, 77 kb)
  
  
• Office of Federal Financial Management; Consolidated Federal Financial Report (April 8, 2003) [68 FR 17097] (9 pages, 1,050 kb)
  
  
• Notice of Proposed Issuance Directive on Standard Data Elements for a Common Summary Report of Inventions (October 30, 2002) [67 FR 66178] (13 pages, 314 kb)

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