DATE: November 14, 2001
SUBJECT: Office of Management and Budget; Availability of Fiscal Year 2001 Agency Inventories Under the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998
SOURCE: Federal Register, November 14, 2001, Vol. 66, No. 220, page 57131
AGENCIES: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
ACTION: Notice of Availability
SYNOPSIS: OMB is announcing that the second release of Commercial Activities Inventories required to be compiled by Public Law 105-270, Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (FAIR Act), is now available to the public from several federal agencies.
EDITOR'S NOTE: OMB made three releases of FY 2000 FAIR Act Inventories.
For more on the first release of the 2001 FAIR Act inventories, see the September 26, 2001, FEDERAL CONTRACTS DISPATCH "Office of Management and Budget; Availability of Fiscal Year 2001 Agency Inventories."
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 Fiscal Year 2001 FAIR Act inventories, and the User's Guide also includes the web-site addresses to access agency inventories.
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 FY 2001 inventories submitted by the following agencies:
| Armed Forces Retirement Home | Rick Coleman, 202-730-3504; Website: http://www.afrh.com |
| Barry Goldwater Scholarship Education Foundation | Gerald Smith, 703-756-6012; Website:http://www.act.org/goldwater |
| Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation | Judith Shellenberger, 315-258-0090; Website:http://www.jwod.gov |
| Commerce | Edna Campbell, 202-482-0585; Website:http://www.doc.gov/oebam/fair |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission | Edward Quist, 301-504-0029 ext.2240; Website:http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/businfo.html |
| Council on Environmental Quality | Ted Boling, 202-395-3449; Website:http://www.whitehouse.gov/CEQ |
| Education | Gary Weaver, 202-401-3848; Website:http://www.ed.gov |
| Environmental Protection Agency (Office of Inspector General (OIG)) | Lisa Karpf, 202-260-8380; Website:http://www.epa.gov/oigearth |
| Environmental Protection Agency | George Ames, 202-564-4998; Website:http://www.epa.gov/efinpage |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | George Betters, 202-663-4266; Website:http://www.eeoc.gov |
| Federal Communications Commission | Michelle Sutton, 202-418-0100; Website:http://www.fcc.gov |
| Farm Credit Administration | Phillip Shebest, 703-883-4146; Website:http://www.fca.gov |
| Federal Labor Relations Authority | Harold Kessler, 202-482-6690, ext. 440; Website:http://www.flra.gov |
| Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board | Richard White, 202-942-1633; Website:http://www.frtib.gov/eread.html |
| Federal Maritime Commission | Bruce Dombrowski, 202-523-5800; Website:http://www.fmc.gov |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | Donald Chamblee, 202-208-1088; Website:http://www.ferc.fed.gov |
| Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission | Richard Baker, 202-653-5625; Website:http://www.fmshrc.gov |
| Health and Human Services | Michael Colvin, 202-690-7887; Website:http://www.hhs.gov/ogam |
| Interior | Jennings Wong, 202-208-6704; Website:http://www.doi.gov/pam |
| Interior (OIG) | Richard Farr, 202-208-4599; Website:http://www.oig.doi.gov |
| Japan-United States Friendship Commission | Eric Ganloff, 202-418-9800; Website:http://www.jusfc.gov |
| Marine Mammal Commission | Suzanne Montgomery, 301-504-0087; Website:http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/procurement |
| Morris Udall Foundation | Chris Helms, 520-670-5299; Website:http://www.Udall.gov |
| National Commission on Libraries and Information Science | Judith Russell, 202-606-9200; Website:http://www.nclis.gov |
| National Mediation Board | June King, 202-692-5010; Website:http://www.nmb.gov |
| National Endowment for the Arts | Mike Burke, 202-682-5497; Website:http://www.arts.gov/learn |
| Office of Science & Technology Policy | Barbara Ferguson, 202-456-6001; Website:http://www.ostp.gov |
| Office of Government Ethics | Sean Donohue, 202-208-8000 ext. 1217; Website:http://www.usoge.gov |
| Office of Personnel Management | Kenneth McMahill, 202-606-2424; Website:http://www.opm.gov/procure |
| Patent and Trademark Office | Daniel Haigler, 703-305-8175; Website:http://www.uspto.gov |
| Railroad Retirement Board (OIG) | Martin Dickman, 312-751-4690; Website:http://www.rrb.gov/oig/fairinven.html |
| Railroad Retirement Board | Henry M. Valiulis, 312-751-4520; Website:http://www.rrb.gov/pdf/cainventory.pdf |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Jayne Seidman, 202-942-4000; Website:http://www.sec.gov |
Interested parties have 30 working days from today (that is, until December 28, 2001) to challenge the omission or inclusion of an activity on an agency's Commercial Activities Inventories list.
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