[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 1, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25483-25484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-10243]


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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION


Notice of Proposed Revisions for the LSC Grant Assurances for 
Calendar Year 2014 Funding

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of proposed changes and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Legal Services Corporation (``LSC'') intends to revise the 
LSC Grant Assurances for calendar year 2014 funding since the last 
publication of the LSC Grant Assurances for 2013 funding and is 
soliciting public comment on the proposed changes. The proposed 
revisions affect Grant Assurances 13 and 17. The proposed LSC grant 
assurances for calendar year 2014 funding, in redline format indicating 
the proposed changes to the current ``LSC 2013 Grant Assurances,'' are 
at http://grants.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/Grants/ReferenceMaterials/2014-GrantAssurances-Proposed.pdf.

DATES: All comments and recommendations must be received on or before 
the close of business on May 31, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted by mail, email, or fax to 
Reginald J. Haley, Office of Program Performance, Legal Services 
Corporation, 3333 K Street NW., Washington, DC 20007; 
[email protected]; or (202) 337-6813 (fax). Comments may also 
be submitted online at http://www.lsc.gov/contact-us.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Reginald J. Haley, [email protected], 
(202) 295-1545.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the LSC grant assurances is 
to delineate the rights and responsibilities of LSC and the recipient 
pursuant to the provisions of the grant. As a grant making agency 
created by Congress, LSC has grant assurances that are intended to 
reiterate and/or clarify the responsibilities and obligations already 
applicable through existing law and regulations and/or obligate the 
recipient to comply with specific additional requirements in order to 
effectuate the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act, as 
amended, and other applicable law. A summary of the changes proposed 
follows.
    Grant Assurance 13 bars recipients from taking or 
threatening to take disciplinary action against employees or volunteers 
for cooperating with or releasing appropriate information to LSC. The 
grant assurance requires each grantee to notify its staff and 
volunteers that it will not take retaliatory actions

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for any appropriate cooperation with LSC or other entity authorized to 
receive such cooperation. The proposed change to the grant assurance 
requires recipients to provide the notification to staff and volunteers 
in writing.
    Grant Assurance 17 requires LSC recipients to maintain all 
records pertaining to the grant and supporting documents sufficient for 
LSC to audit those records. The proposed change to the grant assurance 
requires recipients to follow the record retention requirements 
provided in Appendix II of the Accounting Guide for LSC Recipients 
(2010 Edition).
    The proposed LSC grant assurances for calendar year 2014 funding, 
in redline format indicating the proposed changes to the current ``LSC 
2013 Grant Assurances,'' are at http://grants.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/Grants/ReferenceMaterials/2014-GrantAssurances-Proposed.pdf. 
Interested parties are requested to provide comments concerning the 
proposed grant assurances for 2014 grant awards within a period of 
thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice.

    Dated: April 25, 2013.
Lynn A. Jennings,
Vice President for Grants Management.
[FR Doc. 2013-10243 Filed 4-30-13; 8:45 am]
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