[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 188 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50490-50491]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24680]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION


Office of Policy and Evaluation; Notice of Reporting Requirement 
Under Executive Order 12999--Educational Technology: Ensuring 
Opportunity for All Children In the Next Century

Summary

    Executive Order 12999 was signed by President Clinton on April 17, 
1996. The order streamlines the transfer of excess educationally useful 
equipment, including Federal computer equipment, to schools and 
nonprofit organizations pursuant to section 11(i) of the Stevenson 
Wydler Technology Innovation Act, as amended (15 U.S.C. 3710(i)). The 
Stevenson-Wydler Act authorizes the heads of Federal agencies and 
laboratories to transfer excess research equipment directly to 
educational institutions or nonprofit organizations for technical and 
scientific education and research.
    The order mandates that agencies give the highest preference 
permitted by law to elementary and secondary schools. It further 
directs agencies to report to GSA, any excess research equipment that 
is transferred directly to schools.
    In addition to the reporting requirement in EO 12999, section 
202(e) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, 
as amended (40 U.S.C. 483(e)), requires executive agencies to submit to 
GSA an annual report of personal property furnished to non-Federal 
recipients

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(Non-Federal Recipients Report) during the previous fiscal year.
    In an effort to minimize agencies' reporting burden, GSA has 
identified an already existing reporting vehicle (i.e., the Non-Federal 
Recipients Report) to satisfy the reporting requirement of EO 12999. 
Agencies must, therefore, be sure to include any transfers under EO 
12999 in the Non-Federal Recipients Report. The report, in letter form, 
must include the name and address of each recipient, the original 
acquisition cost of all property furnished to each recipient identified 
by the appropriate two-digit Federal supply classification group, and 
an explanation as to the type of recipient; e.g., schools that receive 
property under EO 12999, other Stevension-Wydler Act donees, all 
contractors (fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, etc.), all grantees 
(project, formula, etc.), and any other individual or organization that 
is not a Federal agency. The report is required to be submitted to GSA 
within 90 calendar days after the close of each fiscal year. Negative 
reports are required.
    Additional information may be obtained by writing to the General 
Services Administration, Office of Governmentwide Policy, Personal 
Property Management Policy Division (MTP), Washington, DC 20405.

    Dated: September 12, 1996.
G. Martin Wagner,
Associate Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-24680 Filed 9-25-96; 8:45 am]
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