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approval of the information needed to
properly register an entity in FSRS to
facilitate the statutorily required
reporting of Transparency Act
information (DUNS number, name of
entity, address, parent DUNS number,
Federal Award Identification Number
(FAIN), CFDA number and the Federal
awarding agency of the grant).
C. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 49,308.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Hours per Response: .5 hr.
Total Burden Hours: 24,645.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from
the General Services Administration,
Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20417,
telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite
OMB Control No. 3090–0291, FSRS
Registration and Prime Awardee EntityRelated Information Reporting
Requirements, in all correspondence.
Dated: January 21, 2011.
Casey Coleman,
Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011–1750 Filed 1–26–11; 8:45 am]
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GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090–0290;Docket No.
2010–0002; Sequence 20]

Submission for OMB Review; OMB
Control No. 3090–0290; Central
Contractor Registration Requirements
for Prime Grant Recipients
Office of Technology Strategy/
Office of Governmentwide Policy,
General Services Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice of request for public
comments regarding a new OMB
information clearance.
AGENCY:

Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory
Secretariat will be submitting to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request to review and approve
an emergency new information
collection requirement regarding Central
Contractor Registration Requirements
for Prime Grant Recipients.
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the Central
Contractor Registration Requirements
for Prime Grant Recipients, whether it
will have practical utility; whether our
estimate of the public burden of this

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collection of information is accurate,
and based on valid assumptions and
methodology; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways in
which we can minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, through the use of
appropriate technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
February 28, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
3090–0290, Central Contractor
Registration Requirements for Prime
Grant Recipients by any of the following
methods:
• Regulations.gov: http://
www.regulations.gov. Submit comments
via the Federal eRulemaking portal by
inputting ‘‘Information Collection 3090–
0290, Central Contractor Registration
Requirements for Prime Grant
Recipients’’ under the heading ‘‘Enter
Keyword or ID’’ and selecting ‘‘Search’’.
Select the link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that
corresponds with ‘‘Information
Collection 3090–0290, Central
Contractor Registration Requirements
for Prime Grant Recipients’’. Follow the
instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a
Comment’’ screen. Please include your
name, company name (if any), and
‘‘Information Collection 3090–0290,
Central Contractor Registration
Requirements for Prime Grant
Recipients’’ on your attached document.
• Fax: 202–501–4067.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
(MVCB), 1275 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: Hada
Flowers/IC 3090–0290.
Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite Information Collection
3090–0290, Central Contractor
Registration Requirements for Prime
Grant Recipients, in all correspondence
related to this collection. All comments
received will be posted without change
to http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal and/or business
confidential information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Janice Miller, Program Analyst, Office of
Technology Strategy/Office of
Governmentwide Policy, at
jan.miller@gsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Purpose
This information collection requires
information necessary for prime
awardee registration into the FFATA
Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) and
review of its entity-related information.

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This will allow for prime awardee
reporting of subaward and executive
compensation data pursuant to the
Federal Funding Accountability and
Transparency Act (FFATA, or
Transparency Act). This information
collection requires that all prime grant
awardees, subject to reporting under the
Transparency Act register and maintain
their registration in CCR.
B. Discussion of Public Comments
Rename the Central Contractor
Registration to more accurately reflect
its new purpose. Four comments were
received expressing concern regarding
the name of the Central Contractor
Registration. Two respondents
suggested that if it is necessary to have
prime grantees maintain registration in
a centralized database of all Federal
awardees, that the registry be renamed
to reinforce the statutory distinction
between acquisition and assistance
awards. Since nongovernmental
organizations accept only assistance
awards (cooperative agreements) from
the U.S. Government, they are
recognized as an independent, non-state
actor that provides technical assistance
through a people-to-people approach.
As they are not agents of the U.S.
Government, they feel that requiring
grantees to register in a ‘‘contractor’’
registry would, by virtue of association,
negate the distinction between
assistance and acquisition, and could
result in confusion about their role in
implementing programs overseas. Two
respondents believe that OMB should
recognize that use of the term
‘‘contractor’’ in a requirement that is
now being applied to recipients of
grants and cooperative agreements is
likely to have a problematic impact
because of the documented tendency on
the part of some Federal agencies to
improperly differentiate between
acquisition and assistance instruments,
and that this has often been the case in
Federal agencies that fund projects that
are performed overseas. These
respondents suggest that OMB consider
changing the nomenclature, at some
future date, to the Central Contractor
and Grantee Registry to reinforce the
statutory distinction derived from the
Federal Grant and Cooperative
Agreement Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–224).
Response: GSA acknowledges that the
Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is
now used by and supports both the
contracts and grants communities. The
registration services it provides are no
longer limited to contractors alone. GSA
also acknowledges the name CCR is not
inclusive of the full range of registration
services provided. Instead of renaming
the system, however, GSA is

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undertaking a restructuring of the
supporting architecture to define
consolidated, streamlined business
services. CCR is the first migration
group of existing, government-wide
systems moving to this new
architecture, known as the System for
Award Management (SAM). The new
system will provide the same
capabilities found in the Federal
procurement and award systems
today—streamlined for efficiency and
supported by common services to
reduce costs and improve data quality.
The business service for entity
management with SAM will incorporate
a restructured registration process better
suited to the needs of both the contracts
and grants communities as well as the
ability to manage certifications and
representations. While CCR will cease to
exist as an independent application, the
Web address for CCR (https://
www.bpn.gov/ccr/default.aspx) will
remain active for a period of time
following the migration redirecting
users to SAM where registration
business services will be provided.
Foreign Assistance Awards. One
respondent urged GSA and OMB to
withdraw this notice until consultations
can be had on less burdensome and
more appropriate accountability
procedures for international
development and humanitarian relief
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
implementing Federal funding that will
not increase the security risks for
organizations and staff in the field.
Response: OMB and GSA sought to
reduce burden on prime awardees while
providing a means to report subaward
activity pursuant to the Federal Funding
Accountability and Transparency Act
(Transparency Act). This information
collection requires that all prime grant
awardees subject to reporting under the
Transparency Act register and maintain
their active registration in CCR. The
Transparency Act does not allow for
exemptions for foreign assistance
awards. This registration enables
significant data reuse within the FSRS
and other government systems, while
increasing data quality. OMB will
continue to work with all prime
recipients’ concerns to identify the least
burdensome methods for reporting,
recognizing the need to ensure the
safety and security of certain foreign
assistance recipients. As Transparency
Act reporting matures, GSA welcomes
specific recommendations on how to
minimize reporting burden while
complying with the Act’s requirements.
Burden Imposed. Three comments
were received regarding the burden of
this information collection. One
respondent commented that regarding

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the GSA estimate of 23,358 respondents,
each respondent is expected to submit
one response with a calculated entry
time of one hour per response appears
only to reflect a one-time estimation of
the reporting burden on the prime
without considering the subsequent
efforts that would need to be made over
the lifetime of an award by both prime
and subawardees to maintain the
accuracy of the information. One
respondent stated that the notice does
not offer estimates of the direct or
indirect costs associated with collection,
entry and maintenance of prime and
subawardee records and that, given the
time and funding required to meet the
requirement in full, it would be difficult
for U.S.-based international NGOs with
hundreds of subawards and limited
budgets to meet the reporting deadline
for each subrecipient without dedicating
a substantial number of new additional
administrative personnel. Another
respondent commented that it appears
from the precision of the data used to
identify the number of respondents
(23,358), GSA is relying on a specific
source rather than simply estimating a
number. But because there is no
identification about where these data on
respondents comes from, it is virtually
impossible to assess whether they are
accurate or based on valid assumptions
and methodologies. The respondent
requests that GSA and OMB publish
additional information about the
sources of data in the request so that
they can be assessed in accordance with
the letter and spirit of the Paperwork
Reduction Act. They also add that the
simple round number of 1 hour per
response identified in the estimate
belies the effort that they and other
similarly situated organizations would
be required to undertake. One
respondent requested that the burden
estimate be re-evaluated.
Response: The figure of 23,358 grants
respondents was derived from the
number of grantees who are not
currently registered in CCR. This
number is based on the total number of
unique prime grant awardees reporting
into USAspending.gov over all years
(80,625), minus the total number of
Recovery Act-funded prime grant
awardees who are currently required
under FederalReporting.gov to register
in CCR (55,267). The resulting
remainder, 23,358, constitutes the total
number of new prime grant awardees
who may not be currently registered in
CCR, and will, as a result of this
revision, be required to register in the
system. This figure may be an
overestimate given that prime grant
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contractors who, under this existing
collection, are required to register in
CCR. This figure may also be an
overestimate to the extent that any grant
awardee whose award amount is
reimbursed through the Department of
the Treasury’s Secure Payment System
is also already required to register in
CCR; and because not all prime grant
awardees will be required to register in
CCR, if no reporting under FFATA is
required. Because these are new
statutory requirements for reporting,
GSA has provided its best estimates
based on available information. Where
the public is encouraged to provide
specific burden estimates associated
with this reporting requirement, GSA
will continue to review and revise these
burden estimates as more information
becomes available.
Purpose of the Information Collection
Request. One respondent asked what
this ICR really does and why was it an
emergency new information collection
requirement.
Response: This information collection
requires that all prime grant awardees
subject to reporting under FFATA
register and maintain their registration
in CCR. Emergency review and
clearance of this new information
collection requirement is essential to the
implementation of FFATA. Without
expedited OMB review and approval,
prime grant awardees would not have
been able to report subaward and
executive compensation data pursuant
to FFATA’s transparency requirements
for new grant awards as of October 1,
2010. The CCR was developed to
centralize awardee information. This
collection will leverage the central
clearinghouse capacity of CCR to ensure
that prime grant awardees have minimal
burden in providing the Federal
Government with its identifying
information. This will ensure that the
information provided to the Federal
Government once will be used multiple
times to facilitate multiple reporting
requirements for prime grant awardees
pursuant to FFATA.
C. Annual Reporting Burden
Respondents: 23,358.
Responses Per Respondent: 1.
Hours Per Response: 1.
Total Burden Hours: 23,358.
Obtaining Copies of Proposals:
Requesters may obtain a copy of the
information collection documents from
the General Services Administration,
Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20417,
telephone (202) 501–4755. Please cite
OMB Control No. 3090–0290, Central
Contractor Registration Requirements

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for Prime Grant Recipients, in all
correspondence.
Dated: January 21, 2011.
Casey Coleman,
Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011–1751 Filed 1–26–11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6820–WY–P

GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
[OMB Control No. 3090–0292; Docket No.
2010–0002; Sequence 18]

Submission for OMB Review; OMB
Control No. 3090–0292; FFATA
Subaward and Executive
Compensation Reporting
Requirements
Office of Technology Strategy/
Office of Governmentwide Policy,
General Services Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice of request for public
comments regarding a new OMB
information clearance.
AGENCY:

Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35), the Regulatory
Secretariat will be submitting to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) a request to review and approve
an emergency new information
collection requirement regarding
FFATA Subaward and Executive
Compensation Reporting Requirements.
Public comments are particularly
invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the FFATA
Subaward and Executive Compensation
Reporting Requirements, whether it will
have practical utility; whether our
estimate of the public burden of this
collection of information is accurate,
and based on valid assumptions and
methodology; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways in
which we can minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, through the use of
appropriate technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
February 28, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments
identified by Information Collection
3090–0292, FFATA Subaward and
Executive Compensation Reporting
Requirements by any of the following
methods:
• Regulations.gov: http://
www.regulations.gov. Submit comments
via the Federal eRulemaking portal by
inputting ‘‘Information Collection 3090–

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0292, FFATA Subaward and Executive
Compensation Reporting Requirements’’
under the heading ‘‘Enter Keyword or
ID’’ and selecting ‘‘Search’’. Select the
link ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ that
corresponds with ‘‘Information
Collection 3090–0292, FFATA
Subaward and Executive Compensation
Reporting Requirements’’. Follow the
instructions provided at the ‘‘Submit a
Comment’’ screen. Please include your
name, company name (if any), and
‘‘Information Collection 3090–0292,
FFATA Subaward and Executive
Compensation Reporting Requirements’’
on your attached document.
• Fax: 202–501–4067.
• Mail: General Services
Administration, Regulatory Secretariat
(MVCB), 1275 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC 20417. ATTN: Hada
Flowers/IC 3090–0292.
Instructions: Please submit comments
only and cite Information Collection
3090–0292, FFATA Subaward and
Executive Compensation Reporting
Requirements, in all correspondence
related to this collection. All comments
received will be posted without change
to http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal and/or business
confidential information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Janice Miller, Program Analyst, Office of
Technology Strategy/Office of
Governmentwide Policy, GSA, at
jan.miller@gsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose
The Federal Funding Accountability
and Transparency Act of 2006, Public
Law 109–282 (Transparency Act)
requires information disclosure of
entities receiving Federal financial
assistance through Federal awards such
as Federal contracts, sub-contracts,
grants and sub-grants, FFATA § 2(a), (2),
(i), (ii). Beginning October 1, 2010, this
Paperwork Reduction Act submission
directs compliance with the
Transparency Act to report prime and
first-tier subaward data. Specifically,
Federal agencies and prime awardees of
grants will ensure disclosure of
executive compensation of both prime
and subawardees and subaward data.
This information collection requires
reporting of only the information
enumerated under the Transparency
Act.
B. Discussion of Public Comments
Reporting of Executive Compensation
for All State Employees. One State
agency commented that the request for
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for all State employees and subcontractors and awardees, but the notice
did not define what ‘‘executive
compensation’’ means. The respondent
asked if this is the salary and benefits
that the chief executives of these entities
make, or does this apply to all
employees of these entities. The
respondent also stated that this would
be a very time-consuming and difficult
task and that they could encounter
privacy concerns with some of the
private firms.
Response: Entity has the meaning
given in 2 CFR part 25. Executive means
officers, managing partners, or any other
employees in management positions.
Total Compensation means the cash and
noncash dollar value earned by the
executive during the recipient’s or
subrecipient’s preceding fiscal year and
includes the following (for more
information see Part 170 Appendix A):
i. Salary and bonus.
ii. Awards of stock, stock options, and
stock appreciation rights. Use the dollar
amount recognized for financial
statement reporting purposes with
respect to the fiscal year in accordance
with the Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 123 (Revised
2004) (FAS 123R), Shared Based
Payments.
iii. Earnings for services under nonequity incentive plans. This does not
include group life, health,
hospitalization or medical
reimbursement plans that do not
discriminate in favor of executives, and
are available generally to all salaried
employees.
iv. Change in pension value. This is
the change in present value of defined
benefit and actuarial pension plans.
v. Above-market earnings on deferred
compensation which is not taxqualified.
vi. Other compensation, if the
aggregate value of all such other
compensation (e.g., severance,
termination payments, value of life
insurance paid on behalf of the
employee, perquisites or property) for
the executive exceeds $10,000.
Under the Act, a prime entity will be
required to report executive
compensation about its own or its
subawardee’s top five highly
compensated officials if: The entity in
the preceding fiscal year received 80
percent or more of its annual gross
revenues in Federal awards; and
$25,000,000 or more in annual gross
revenues from Federal awards; and the
public does not have access to the
information about the compensation of
the senior executives of the entity
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