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Panoptic Enterprises' FEDERAL CONTRACTS DISPATCH

DATE: June 6, 2002

SUBJECT: Federal Management Regulation (FMR); Sale of Personal Property

SOURCE: Federal Register, July 19, 2002, Vol. 67, No. 139, page 47494

AGENCIES: Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration (GSA)

ACTION: Proposed Rule

SYNOPSIS: GSA is proposing to update, streamline, and clarify Federal Property Management Regulations (FPMR) Part 101-45, Sale, Abandonment, or Destruction of Personal Property, then moving it to the Federal Management Regulation (FMR) as Part 102-38, Sale of Personal Property.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The FPMR is Chapter 101 of Title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The FMR is Chapter 102 of Title 41 of the CFR. Both the FPMR and the FMR are available at http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mv/fmr/index.htm.

GSA is in the process of updating, reorganizing, streamlining, simplifying, and clarifying the contents of the FPMR, then transferring the contents to the Federal Management Regulations (FMR), which was established on July 21, 1999, as Chapter 102 of Title 41 of the CFR. When the transfer is complete, the FMR will contain a refined set of policies and regulatory requirements on managing property and administrative services. Non-regulatory materials (such as guidance, procedures, information and standards) will be available in separate documents, such as customer service guides, handbooks, brochures, Internet websites, and FMR bulletins.

The FMR is written in the "plain language" regulatory style. This style is directed at the reader and uses a question and answer format, active voice, shorter sentences, and pronouns such as "we", "you", and "I".

The conversion from the FPMR to the FMR will take some time, so it will occur incrementally as the regulations are rewritten. Because of this, both the FPMR and the FMR will exist concurrently, and readers will need to refer to both documents to obtain all the related material -- the same content will not appear in both regulations.

DATES: Comments must be submitted by August 19, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to Rodney Lantier, Regulatory Secretariat (MVP), Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration, 1800 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20405. Address e-mail comments to: RIN.3090-AH10@gsa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Holcombe, Director, Personal Property Management Policy Division (MTP), 202-501-3828.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: The following are the major changes that would be made by this proposed rule to the FPMR and the FMR:

• All that remain of FPMR Part 101-45 would be Section 101-45.000, Cross-Reference to the Federal Management Regulation (FMR) (41 CFR Chapter 102, Parts 102-1 Through 102-220), which would state: "For information on sale of personal property previously contained in this part, see FMR Part 38 (41 CFR Part 102-38)."
  
  
• The following are the proposed contents of the new FMR Part 102-38:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Panoptic Enterprises at 703-451-5953 or by e-mail to Panoptic@FedGovContracts.com.

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