Attachment 3-July 28 FR notice on FFR

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 145 (Thursday, July 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45299-45300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19120]

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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment
Request

AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Office of Federal Financial
Management.

ACTION: Notice; Request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) invites the general
public and Federal agencies to comment on the renewal without change of
the Standard Form 425, Federal Financial Report and the SF-425A,
Federal Financial Report Attachment. Both forms are used in reporting
financial information under grants and cooperative agreements.

DATES: Comments must be received by September 26, 2011. Due to
potential delays in OMB's receipt and processing of mail sent through
the U.S. Postal Service, we encourage respondents to submit comments
electronically to ensure timely receipt. We cannot guarantee that
comments mailed will be received before the comment closing date.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent through regulations.gov, a Federal E-
Government Web site that allows the public to find, review, and submit
comments on documents that agencies have published in the Federal
Register and that are open for comment. Simply type ``FFR renewal'' (in
quotes) in the Comment or Submission search box, click Go, and follow
the instructions for submitting comments. Comments received by the date
specified above will be included as part of the official record.
Marguerite Pridgen, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office
of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503;
telephone 202-395-7844; fax 202-395-3952; e-mail mpridgen@omb.eop.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marguerite Pridgen at the addresses
noted above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Paperwork Reduction Act notice
published on August 13, 2008 [73 FR 47246], OMB directed Federal
agencies to transition their grant and cooperative agreement recipients
from using the Standard Forms 269, 269A, 272, and 272A to using the
Standard Form (SF) 425, Federal Financial Report and Standard Form
425A, Federal Financial Report Attachment by no later than October 1,
2009. With this first renewal cycle for the SF-425 and SF-425A, the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) invites the general public and
Federal agencies to comment on the renewal without change of the
Standard Form 425, Federal Financial Report and the SF-425A, Federal
Financial Report Attachment, which are posted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants_forms. We are particularly interested in
feedback on (1) How the SF-425 and SF-425A are an improvement over the
data collections they replaced (SF-269, SF-269A, SF-272, and SF-272A);
(2) how using a specification for a data exchange or other data model
instead of structured forms could facilitate the submission and
collection of the financial data identified in the SF-425 and SF-425A;
and (3) any proposals, use cases, specifications, or models for
eliminating redundancies in reporting grant financial information and
increasing its usefulness regardless of how the

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financial information is reported (form, data input, system-to-system,
etc.)
OMB Control No.: 0348-0061.
Title: Federal Financial Report.
Form No.: SF-425, SF-425A.
Type of Review: Renewal of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: States, Local Governments, Universities, Non-Profit
Organizations.
Number of Responses: 1,200,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 60 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The SF-425 is used to collect financial information
for recipients of grants and cooperative agreements and related
transactions under nonconstruction grant programs.

Debra J. Bond,
Deputy Controller.
[FR Doc. 2011-19120 Filed 7-27-11; 8:45 am]
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