NGTP97

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NGMA 25th Annual Training Conference April 29,
2004 - Washington, DC Gilbert Tran
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The Long and Winding Road of Grant Streamlining

• The Beginning
• The Halfway Mark
• The Road Ahead
• First, the GRANT picture

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Distribution of Federal Grants
Locals
Universities
NP
Tribes, others
States
2003 US BUDGET - 2.1 TRILLION
GRANTS- 400 BILLION
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Steep Rise in Federal Grants
In Billion of
400B
200B
91B
24B
7B
CFDA lists more than 600 Federal grant programs
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FY 2003 Budgeted Grant Outlays to State
Local Governments by Agency
Im DHHS, Hear me roar, RAAGGH!!
Department of Agriculture .. 22.
4 Department of Commerce .........................
.................... 0.6 Department of
Education ........................................
...... 33.0 Department of Energy
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0.4 Department of Health and Human Services
............. 220.1 Department of Housing and
Urban Development ......... 29.4 Department of
the Interior .....................................
......... 2.7 Department of Justice
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... 7.2 Department of Labor .....................
............................... 8.6 Department
of Transportation ................................
....... 38.4 Department of the Treasury
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0.4 Department of Veterans Affairs
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0.5 Environmental Protection Agency
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4.0 Federal Emergency Management Agency
...................... 6.7 Other agencies
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............ 2.1 Total .........................
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376.4 Billion
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2003 TOP 10 FEDERAL PROGRAMS
(IN BILLION)

• Medicaid 160.0
• Highway Planning Const. 22.1
• TANF - HHS 19.4
• Food Stamps/Child Nutrition 14.6
• Title I - Education 11.4
• Work Force Investment Act 9.3
• Special Education 8.5
• School Lunch Program 7.5
• Head Start 6.7
• Foster Care 4.9

Total 264.4 Billion
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• Simplify application and reporting requirements
• Improve delivery of services to the public
• Facilitate greater coordination
• Improve effectiveness and performance of Federal
  assistance programs

Overview Public Law 106-107
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Grants Streamlining - Update
Overview The process continues

• Grants Management Committee
• Pre-award work group
• -- Discretionary/mandatory teams
• Post-award work group
• -- Payment/cost principles/reporting teams
• Audit oversight work group
• E-Grants initiative (handles the electronics)

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Grants Streamlining - Update
Key Documents to Congress

• May 2001 initial plan
• May 2002 OMB report on statutory impediments
• August 2002 agency reports on progress (May 2001
  to May 2002)
• August 2003 agency reports on progress (May 2002
  to May 2003)

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Grants Streamlining - Update
August 2002 Federal Register Notices

• Increase audit threshold to 500K
• Standard announcement format
• Announcement synopsis data elements for E-FIND
• Cost principles improvements

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Grants Streamlining - Update
October 2002 Federal Register Notices

• Use of DUNS number as a universal identifier
• Standard data elements for invention reporting

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Grants Streamlining - Update
April 2003 Federal Register Notices

• Consolidated Financial Report
• 4 to 1
• Standard data elements for application form
• Basis for common application form

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Grants Streamlining - Update
June 2003 Federal Register notices

• Proposals
• Title 2 Common rule improvements
• Use of Grants.gov FIND (final 10/03)
• Finals
• Grant announcement format
• FedBizOpps synopsis data elements
• Universal ID
• Audit threshold
• Grant application data standard

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Grants Streamlining - Update
Upcoming Federal Register notices

• Finals
• Title 2
• Cost Principles Improvements
• Consolidated financial report
• Research Related Application Set

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Other Grant Initiatives

• Grants.gov
• Line of Business Initiative Grant Management
  Systems
• Improper Payments
• Performance Measures
• Measure performance for PART
• Performance metrics

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Other Grant Initiatives

• Grants.gov
• FIND operational Fall 03
• Policy 10/8/03
• APPLY operational Jan 04
• Policy being developed
• Research data set ready

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Other Grant Initiatives

• Line of Business Initiative Grant Management
  Systems
• Chaired by Education NSF
• Back Office Grant Systems
• April 15, 2004 RFI for industry ideas