[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3015.83]

[Page 111]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                         CHAPTER XXX--OFFICE OF
                      THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER,
                        DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3015_UNIFORM FEDERAL ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart J_Financial Reporting Requirements
 
Sec. 3015.83  Federal cash transactions report.

    (a) Form. (1) For grants or cooperative agreements paid by letters 
of credit (or Treasury check advances) through any USDA payment office, 
the recipient shall submit to USDA a Standard Form 272, Federal Cash 
Transactions Report, and, when necessary, its continuation sheet, SF-
272a. Recipients under the Regional Disbursing Office (RDO) system shall 
not be required to submit a SF-272. For these recipients, awarding 
agencies shall use information contained in the Request for Payment to 
monitor recipient cash balances and to get disbursement information.
    (2) The SF-272 will be used by USDA to monitor cash advanced to 
recipients and to obtain disbursement or outlay information from 
recipients for each grant or cooperative agreement. The format of the 
report may be adapted, as appropriate, when reporting is to be 
accomplished with the assistance of automatic data processing equipment, 
provided that the identical information is submitted.
    (b) Forecasts of Federal cash requirements. Awarding agencies may 
require that forecasts of Federal cash requirements be provided in the 
``Remarks'' section of the report.
    (c) Cash in hands of subrecipients or contractors. When considered 
necessary and feasible by the responsible USDA awarding agency, 
recipients may be required to:
    (1) Show in the ``Remarks'' section of the report the amount of cash 
advances exceeding three days needs in the hands of their subrecipients 
or contractors, and
    (2) Provide short narrative explanations or actions taken by the 
recipient to reduce such excess balances.
    (d) Frequency and due date. Recipients shall submit the report no 
later than 15 working days following the end of each quarter. However, 
the USDA payment office may require recipients receiving advances of one 
million dollars or more per year to submit a report within 15 working 
days following the end of each month. Awarding agencies may waive the 
requirement for submission of the SF-272 when monthly advances do not 
exceed $10,000 per recipient, provided that such advances are monitored 
through other forms contained in this subpart, or if, in the awarding 
agency's opinion, the recipient's accounting controls are adequate to 
minimize excessive Federal advances.