DATE: January 18, 2005
SUBJECT: Office of Management and Budget; Availability of Fiscal Year 2004 Agency Inventories
SOURCE: Federal Register, January 18, 2005, Vol. 70, No. 11, page 2907
AGENCIES: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
ACTION: Notice of Availability
SYNOPSIS: OMB is announcing that the second release of the Commercial Activities Inventories of non-inherently governmental activities required to be compiled by Public Law 105-270, Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (FAIR Act), is now available to the public from several federal agencies.
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more on the first release of FY 2004 agency inventories, see the November 17, 2004, FEDERAL CONTRACTS DISPATCH “Office of Management and Budget; Availability of Fiscal Year 2004 Agency Inventories.”
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, which is part of OMB, has prepared a summary FAIR Act User's Guide and is making it available on its Internet site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/fair-index.html. This User's Guide is intended to help interested parties review the Year 2004 FAIR Act inventories, and the User's Guide also includes the web-site addresses to access agencies' inventories.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Section 2 of the FAIR Act requires that each agency submit a list of government activities it is performing which are not "inherently governmental functions", and that OMB publish an announcement of public availability of these lists, called "Commercial Activities Inventories," upon completion of its review of the agencies' inventory submissions. OMB has completed its review of the FY 2004 inventories submitted by the following agencies:
| Appalachian Regional Commission | Guy Land, 202-884-7674; http://www.arc.gov |
| Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board | Larry Roffee, 202-272-0001; http://www.access-board.gov |
| Arlington National Cemetery | Rory Smith, 703-607-8561; http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org |
| Barry Goldwater Scholarship Education Foundation | Gerald Smith, 703-756-6012; http://www.act.org/goldwater |
| Broadcasting Board of Governors | Stephen Smith, 202-203-4588; http://www.bbg.gov |
| Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation | Judith M. Shellenberger, 315-258-0090; http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/fair_list_nosite.html |
| Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board | Kenneth Pusateri, 202-694-7000; http://www.dnfsb.gov |
| Department of Defense | Paul Soloman, 703-602-3666; http://web.lmi.org/fairnet |
| Department of Defense Inspector General (IG) | John R. Crane, 703-604-8324; http://www.dodig.osd.mil |
| Department of Education | Glenn Perry, 202-245-6200; http://www.ed.gov |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development | Janice Blake-Green, 202-708-0614, x3214; http://www.hud.gov |
| Department of Housing and Urban Development IG | Peggy Dickinson, 202-708-0614, x8192; http://www.hudoig.gov |
| Department of State | Valerie Dumas, 703-516-1506; http://www.state.gov |
| Department of Treasury | Jim Sullivan, 202-622-9395; http://www.treas.gov/fair |
| Environmental Protection Agency | Melanie Gooden, 202-566-2222; http://www.epa.gov |
| Environmental Protection Agency IG | Michael J. Binder, 202-566-2617; http://www.epa.gov/oig |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Jeffrey Smith, 202-663-4200; http://www.eeoc.gov |
| Farm Credit Administration | Philip Shebest, 703-883-4146; http://www.fca.gov |
| Federal Maritime Commission | Bruce Dombrowski, 202-523-5800; http://www.fmc.gov |
| Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service | Dan Ellerman, 202-606-5460; http://www.fmcs.gov |
| Federal Trade Commission | Darlene Cossette, 202-326-3255; http://www.ftc.gov |
| General Services Administration | Paul Boyle, 202-501-0324; http://www.gsa.gov |
| Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation | Tara Kneller, 202-395-7434; http://www.truman.gov |
| James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation | Steve Weiss, 202-653-6109; http://www.jamesmadison.com |
| National Archives and Records Administration | Lori Lisowski, 301-837-1850; http://www.nara.gov |
| National Archives and Records Administration IG | James Springs, 301-837-3018; http://www.archives.gov/about_us/office_of_the_inspector_general/index.html |
| National Capital Planning Commission | Barry Socks, 202-482-7209; http://www.ncpc.gov |
| National Endowment for the Art | Ned Read, 202-682-5782; http://www.arts.gov |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Barry Maynes, 202-606-8233; http://www.neh.gov |
| National Mediation Board | Grace Ann Leach, 202-692-5010; http://www.nmb.gov |
| Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board | Joyce Dory, 703-235-4473; http://www.nwtrb.gov |
| Office of Personnel Management | Ronald Flom, 202-606-2200; http://www.opm.gov |
| Office of the Special Counsel | Sharyn Danch, 202-254-3600; http://www.osc.gov |
| Office of the U.S. Trade Representative | Susan Buck, 202-395-9412; http://www.ustr.gov |
| Peace Corps | Janice Hagginbothom, 202-692-1655; http://www.peacecorps.gov |
| Small Business Administration | Robert J. Moffitt, 202-205-6610; http://www.sba.gov/fair |
| Small Business Administration IG | Robert Fisher, 202-205-6583; http://www.sba.gov/ig |
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | Aprie Balian, 703-305-9357; http://www.uspto.gov |
| U.S. Trade Development Agency | Barbara Bradford, 703-875-4357; http://www.tda.gov |
Interested parties have 30 working days from today (that is, until March 30, 2005) to challenge the omission or inclusion of an activity on an agency's Commercial Activities Inventories list.
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