[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 183 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57871-57872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20484]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Acquisition Regulations System

[Docket Number DARS-2021-0021; OMB Control Number 0750-0006]


Information Collection Requirement; Defense Federal Acquisition 
Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Part 237, Service Contracting, and 
Related Clauses

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition Regulations System, Department of Defense 
(DoD).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Acquisition Regulations System has submitted to 
OMB, for clearance, the following proposed revision and extension of a 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by October 
24, 2022.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title, Associated Form, and OMB Number: Defense Federal Acquisition 
Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Part 237 Clauses 252.237-7025 and 
252.237-7026; OMB Control Number 0750-0006.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profit and not-for profit 
institutions.
    Respondent's Obligation: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Number of Respondents: 12.
    Responses per Respondent: 35.
    Annual Responses: 420.
    Average Burden per Response: 0.062, approximately.
    Annual Burden Hours: 26.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection is required to 
implement section 1006 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 
for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 (Pub. L. 115-232), as amended by section 1011 
of the NDAA for FY 2020 (Pub. L. 116-92). Section 1006 applies to 
accounting firms that provide financial statement auditing to DoD in 
support of the audit under 31 U.S.C. 3521 or audit remediation services 
in support of the Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation Plan 
described in 10 U.S.C. 240b. Such firms, when responding to a 
solicitation or awarded a contract for the acquisition of covered 
services, must disclose to DoD before any contract action (including 
award, renewals, and amendments) the details of any disciplinary 
proceedings with respect to the accounting firm or its associated 
persons before any entity with the authority to enforce compliance with 
rules or laws applying to audit services offered by the accounting 
firm. DoD, as a matter of policy to provide a level playing field 
between firms that provide audit services to support certain DoD 
audits, is extending this requirement to firms other than accounting 
firms that provide such services. Section 1011 amended section 1006 to 
require any disclosures to be treated as confidential to the extent 
required by the court or agency in which the proceeding occurred and to 
be treated in a manner consistent with any protections or privileges 
established by any other provision of Federal law.
    a. DFARS provision 252.237-7025, Preaward Transparency Requirements

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for Firms Offering to Support Department of Defense Audits--
Representation and Disclosure, is prescribed at DFARS 237.270(e)(3) for 
use in solicitations for the acquisition of financial statement 
auditing or audit remediation services.
    b. DFARS clause 252.237-7026, Postaward Transparency Requirements 
for a Firm that Supports Department of Defense Audits, is prescribed at 
DFARS 237.270(e)(4) for use in solicitations and contracts for the 
acquisition of financial statement auditing or audit remediation 
services.
    Comments and recommendations on the proposed information collection 
should be sent to Ms. Susan Minson, DoD Desk Officer, at 
[email protected]. Please identify the proposed information 
collection by DoD Desk Officer and the Docket ID number and title of 
the information collection.
    You may also submit comments, identified by docket number and 
title, by the following method: Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
    DoD Clearance Officer: Ms. Angela Duncan. Requests for copies of 
the information collection proposal should be sent to Ms. Duncan at 
[email protected].

Jennifer D. Johnson,
Editor/Publisher, Defense Acquisition Regulations System.
[FR Doc. 2022-20484 Filed 9-21-22; 8:45 am]
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