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Barry McVay's FEDERAL CONTRACTS DISPATCH

DATE: December 14, 2000

FROM: Barry McVay, CPCM

SUBJECT: Office of Management and Budget; Availability of Year 2000 Agency Inventories Under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998

SOURCE: Federal Register, December 14, 2000, Vol. 65, No. 241, page 78219

AGENCIES: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

ACTION: Notice of Availability

SYNOPSIS: OMB is announcing that the Commercial Activities Inventories required to be compiled by Public Law 105-270, Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (FAIR Act), are now available to the public from several federal agencies.

EDITOR'S NOTE: For more on the first release of Year 2000 Commercial Activities Inventories, see the October 3, 2000, FEDERAL CONTRACTS DISPATCH "Office of Management and Budget; Availability of Year 2000 Agency Inventories Under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998."

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, which is part of OMB, has prepared a summary FAIR Act User's Guide and is making it available on its Internet site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/procurement/index.html. This User's Guide is intended to help interested parties review the Year 2000 FAIR Act inventories, and the User's Guide also includes the web-site addresses to access agency inventories.

Also, today OMB published a request for comments on a proposed change to the OMB Circular A-76 Revised Supplemental Handbook to clarify the scope of the challenge-and-appeals process that is available under the FAIR Act. See today's FEDERAL CONTRACTS DISPATCH "Office of Management and Budget; Proposed Revision to Guidance on Implementation of the FAIR Act."

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Section 2 of the FAIR Act requires that each agency submit a list of government activities it is performing which are not "inherently governmental functions", and that OMB publish an announcement of public availability of these lists, called "Commercial Activities Inventories," upon completion of its review of the agencies' inventory submissions. OMB has completed its review of the inventories submitted by the following agencies:

OMB has not completed the review of the inventories submitted by several cabinet departments (the Departments of Defense, Energy, Interior, Justice, Labor, Transportation, Treasury) and major agencies (such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Additional announcements will be published as OMB completes the review process for the inventories of these and other departments and agencies. Interested parties have 30 working days from today (that is, until January 30, 2001) to challenge the omission or inclusion of an activity on an agency's the Commercial Activities Inventories list.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barry McVay at 703-451-5953 or by e-mail to BarryMcVay@FedGovContracts.com.

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