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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary

43 CFR Part 12

RIN 1090-AA41

 

Administrative and Audit Requirements and Cost Principles for 
Assistance Programs

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: This document reopens and extends the comment period for the 
notice of proposed rulemaking published on August 12, 1993 (58 FR 
42918). This action is being taken because the Department was unable to 
publish the final rule before the end of Fiscal Year 1993 and the Buy 
American requirements were again included in the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994 and the Energy 
and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1994. Pursuant to these 
statutory provisions, the Department proposes to extend the 
requirements to Fiscal Year 1994, under the same terms as set forth in 
the August 12, 1993 document.

DATES: Comments must be in writing and must be received by February 14, 
1994. Comments should be mailed to Acquisition and Assistance Division, 
Office of Acquisition and Property Management, Department of the 
Interior, 1849 C St., NW., Mail Stop 5512, Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dean Titcomb (Chief, Acquisition and 
Assistance Division), (202) 208-6431.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 5, 1992, the Department of the 
Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1993 
(``the Act'') was signed into law. Section 319 of the Act was entitled 
``Buy American Requirements.'' The section applied to funds 
appropriated or transferred pursuant to the Act for the purchase of any 
equipment or product that may have been authorized to be purchased with 
financial assistance.
    Section 319(b)(2) required that in providing financial assistance 
under the Act, the Secretary shall provide to each recipient of the 
assistance a notice describing the Buy American requirement. No other 
specific Congressional guidance was given regarding the implementation 
of this requirement.
    The Department proposed to revise 43 CFR part 12, by adding subpart 
E to implement these requirements. Since no specific guidance was 
provided by Congress, the Department decided to base its implementation 
upon similar rules in the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
    Public Law 103-138, the ``Department of the Interior and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994,'' and Public Law 103-126, the 
``Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1994,'' extend the 
Buy American requirements to awards of financial assistance under the 
Department's general appropriation for Fiscal Year 1994, as well as to 
similar awards by the Bureau of Reclamation. Because the statutes 
change no other portions of the Buy American requirements, and because 
the Department was unable to issue a final rule prior to the enactment 
of the two statutes, the Department now proposes to issue a final rule 
based on the proposed rule published on August 12, 1993. No other 
significant changes are proposed.
    Only one public comment was received in response to the publication 
of the proposed rule. This action will allow for the receipt of more 
comments to be considered prior to the publication of the final rule.

    Dated: December 22, 1993.
B.R. Cohen,
Assistant Secretary-Policy, Management and Budget.
[FR Doc. 94-919 Filed 1-13-94; 8:45 am]
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