Opportunity to Comment-
Simplification of Federal Grant Programs
Opportunity to Comment - Simplification of Federal Grant
Programs
On November 20, 1999, the President signed into law the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act (Public Law 106-107) whose purposes are to improve the delivery of services to the public and the effectiveness and performance of Federal grant programs. Federal agencies are working with the Office of Management of Budget
(OMB) to: develop uniform administrative rules and common application and reporting systems; replace paper with electronic processing in administration of grant programs; and identify statutory impediments to grant program simplification.
Consultation with the recipient community is an important part of the grant program implification effort. We welcome ideas to make it easier for State, local, and tribal governments and nonprofit organizations to apply for and report on Federal
grants. Please send your comments via email to: PL106107@ost.dot.gov. Be sure to include the name of the organization you represent.
We want to know which processes in the grants life cycle need streamlining and improvement, and your suggestions for achieving improvements. We need to know what is most important to you, in terms of grant simplification. Finally, we want you to identify the specific grant program(s) that you find to be most burdensome, with some detail
about why they are burdensome, individually or collectively, because we need to focus our efforts on those programs that are in the greatest need of review and streamlining.
Your input is valued, and is part of the larger process of achieving the goals of Public Law 106-107, namely, simplification of Federal grant programs for the benefit of our recipients. Please note there will not be any individual response to the input. However, we intend to periodically provide summary information relating to implementation of the law on this web page. Thank you for your participation.