Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200) (Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance)
The new revisions are part of the Biden administration’s professed desire to simplify the grant process, streamline implementation, and broaden the pool of potential recipients. Changes include:
Using plain language in Notice of Funding Opportunities and permitting federal awards to be translated into languages other than English.
Raising Single Audit threshold from $750,000 to $1,000,000 per fiscal year which means that more local governments will no longer have to submit a Single Audit, which reduces transparency and the ability for community members to understand how reliant their government is on federal dollars.
Pushing for funding to be used for data collection and reporting along with covering more administrative costs.
Affording Tribal recipients more latitude to self-audit and rely on indigenous knowledge in lieu of scientific or economic measures.
Enabling Tribal applicants to circumvent requirements that they receive consent for their grant applications from affected states.
Federal agencies must submit their implementation plans by May 15, 2024, and apply the final guidance to federal grants by October 1, 2024.
Released April 4, 2024
