[Federal Register: March 9, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 45)]
[Notices]
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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Policy Change Regarding the Publication of Notices of Funding
Availability

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Corporation for National and Community Service
(Corporation) no longer publishes Notices of Funding Availability
(NOFAs) in the Federal Register. Instead, all Corporation NOFAs are
synopsized and posted at the government-wide Internet site, http://Grants.gov
, in accordance with the policy directive issued by the

Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The full NOFA associated with a
synopsis posted at Grants.gov may be accessed by following the
universal resource locator (URL) link included in the synopsis, or by
visiting the Corporation's Web site.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 9, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlene Zakai, Director, Office of
Grants Policy and Operations, 1201 New York Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC, 20525, (202) 606-5000 ext. 536 or by e-mail at mzakai@cns.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 8, 2003, OMB issued a policy
directive entitled ``Requirement to Post Funding Opportunity
Announcement Synopses at Grant.gov and Related Data Elements/Format''
[68 FR 58146, October 8, 2003]. The directive requires every Federal
agency that awards discretionary grants and cooperative agreements to
post synopses of its funding opportunity announcements in standard
format on the Internet at http://Grants.gov or such Web site/Internet

address that may be identified by OMB. A key purpose for establishing a
single government-wide Web site is to provide prospective grant
applicants the opportunity to locate funding opportunities in one place
rather than having to search for announcements in multiple locations.
Shortly after OMB issued the directive, the Corporation began posting
synopses of its NOFAs at Grants.gov. Each Corporation synopsis includes
information on how to obtain the full NOFA, as well as a ULR link to
the full NOFA posted on the Corporation's own Web site. The Corporation
has determined that posting its funding announcements at Grants.gov and
on its own Web site is both effective and efficient. Therefore, the
Corporation has discontinued the policy of publishing NOFAs in the
Federal Register.

    Dated: March 3, 2005.
Marlene Zakai,
Director, Office of Grants Policy and Operations.
[FR Doc. 05-4589 Filed 3-8-05; 8:45 am]