FEDERAL ASSISTANCE AWARD DATA SYSTEM
               DETAILED ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL AGENCY
                       REPORTING COMPLIANCE
                      SECOND QUARTER FY 1996


The following list is intended to provide general guidance for the
user about the status and quality of reports from the Federal
agencies.  Users are urged to contact the Census Bureau if any
reporting problems are discovered.

GENERAL NOTE:  The congressional district designation in field 13
of each record, reflects the congressional district of the 103rd
Congress.


           
Agriculture, Department of

    Missing Data Elements:  None

    Reporting Deviations:

         Nonfederal Funding -- amounts are estimated for some entries
      (Food and Nutrition Service grants -- CFDA range 10.550 to          10.565).
         
         Type of Assistance -- CFDA program 10.051 is classified
         as both "direct loans" (code 07) and "other assistance"
         (code 11).  This program is Commodity Loans and Purchases
         (Price Supports), for which the Federal Government
         provides assistance in the form of direct loans or direct
         payments.  The Agriculture Department has classified the
         purchase of commodities under this program as "other"
         financial assistance.  The value of forfeited collateral
         in program number 10.051 is not reported in the FAADS.
             
         
         Program coverage: 

         Programs 10.769 Rural Development grants, and 10.433 Rural
         Housing Preservation grants are reported in the county
         aggregate format even though the awards are to public bodies.

         The Food Stamp program is reported as a single entry for each
         State, paid to the State capital.  No substate detail on this
         program is available for FAADS.







Appalachian Regional Commission

     Missing Data Elements:   None
     
     Reporting Deviations:    None

Commerce, Department of
  
  Missing Data Elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:  None

     Note:     Ending dates on some Commerce Department loan
               obligations reflect the entire period over which the
               loan is outstanding.  Some of these are ten or more
               years in duration, and thus the year for the ending
               date will appear in FAADS data as 02, 03, 04 and so
               forth (reflecting 2002, 2003, 2004, etc.).


Corporation for National and Community Service

     Missing Data Elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:  None
          
     During FY 1995 the Corporation for National and Community Service
     assumed responsibility for the programs of the former ACTION
     agency and continued to report them in the 72.xxx series of
     Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) program numbers. 
     The programs of the Corporation are listed under the new CFDA
     series 94.xxx.  

     In FY 1996 all programs have been reported in the 94.XXX series;      the programs have been renumbered as follows:

                                   72.001         94.011
                                   72.002         94.002
                                   72.003         94.013
                                   72.008         94.016
                                   72.015         94.010

Defense, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:   None

     Reporting Deviations:    None








Education, Department of

  Missing Data Elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:
 
  Program Coverage:  Awards under CFDA program 84.032, Higher
     Education Act Insured Loans (Guaranteed Student Loans) are not
     reported by the Department    of Education on a quarterly basis.

     Note:     Awards under CFDA #84.031, Higher Education-Institutional
               Aid, have ending dates in the next century.  To
               strengthen college endowments, these awards must be
               invested for a period of years, after which the grant may
               be used.

Energy, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:

     Recipient Location -- reflects project rather than recipient
     location (although they are the same for many programs).

     Federal Agency Code -- All records reflect the Departmental Code
     "8900" rather than codes for individual offices administering the
     programs.

  Start Dates -- There are 65 records with old start dates that   
   were accepted as valid.  

Environmental Protection Agency

     Data was received for first and second quarter.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
     
     No data reported for second quarter.














Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

     Missing Data Elements:  None
     
     Reporting Deviations:
     The Disaster Assistance program (CFDA 83.516) is reported as both
     county aggregate records and action-by-action records.  The      county aggregate records represent grants to the county          government, for pass-through to individual recipients.  Grants to
     the State government for pass-through to individual recipients   are so designated, but are reported at the State capital city.   Program 83.503 Civil Defense-State and Local Emergency Management
     Assistance is now being reported under 83.AAA.


     Note:     Federal funds reported for the Flood Insurance Program
               (CFDA 83.100) represent the face value of policies
               written during the quarter.  The Federal Flood Insurance
               program consists of two parts -- policies written by the 
                    Federal government, and policies written by private                   insurance companies (write-your-own).  The write-your-own
                    program is included on a one quarter lag basis.

     Data for the Food and Shelter program (83.523) is now being
     reported annually, in the third quarter.  Many of the food and
     shelter grants to regional charitable organizations are reported
     in county aggregate format and identified as "state-wide".  These
     grants cannot be reported in a particular county, nor can they be
     reported at the state capitol city and county.  Such records have
     blanks in these geographic identifier fields.

Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

     Due to the low volume of financial assistance transactions, the  agency will report such transactions only once each fiscal year,      in the fourth quarter.  


Health and Human Services, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:
          Nonfederal Funding -- not available for matching grant           programs.

     Reporting Deviations:
          Multiple transactions under one project, including obligations
          and deobligations, are summarized under one entry per quarter. 
          Applies primarily to assistance awards in the "direct
          payments" category. 



     
Health and Human Services, Continued

Proration/allocation methods are used to distribute assistance by
geographic area for the following programs:  93.778, 93.773,
93.774, 93.777, 93.560, 93.563, 96.001, 96.002, 96.004, 96.005,
96.006. For the 93.563 (Child Support Enforcement), 93.778
(medicaid), 93.777 (State Certification), and 93.560 (Family
Support Payments, AFDC), grant awards are made to the state
governments, but reported here by county area.

     
Housing and Urban Development, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:   None

  Reporting Deviations:
     Funding -- Amounts reported at programs 14.174 and all
          programs beginning 14.2 and 14.8 are actual expenditures for          the quarter, NOT obligations.

  Recipient Location -- for many programs, actually represents
          the project location.  The recipient and project locations are
          usually the same.

  Program coverage -- HUD does not report separately for the
     following CFDA programs:

                              14.112    14.132    14.170    14.405
                              14.116    14.134    14.171    14.508
                              14.119    14.139    14.175    14.509
                              14.121    14.162    14.220    
                              14.126    14.164    14.222    
                              14.130    14.168    14.400                         

Institute of Museum Services

     Missing data elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:   None
















Interior, Department of the

     Missing Data Elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:   

     Program Coverage -- the Department of the Interior does not
          report awards from the following Bureau of Indian Affairs
          programs:  15.103, 15.108, 15.113, 15.114, 15.23, 15.124. 
          Programs 15.130, 15.141, and 15.143 are awarded by contract
          and thus are not covered by FAADS.

Japan United States Friendship Commission

     Due to the low volume of financial assistance transactions, the
     agency will report such transactions only once each fiscal year,
     in the fourth quarter. The transactions will be reported under
     CFDA program number 85.100 which was assigned after the UPDATE to
     the 1995 Catalog was printed.

Justice, Department of

     Missing Data Elements: None
     
     Reporting Deviations:  None

Labor, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:

     Reporting Deviations:
          Action Date -- represented by last day of the reporting
          quarter for entries that reflect more than one transaction
          (See Note).

     Note:     For the Employment and Training Administration, reporting
               reflects multiple transactions summarized under one entry
               per quarter for each recipient. 

















National Aeronautics and Space Administration

     Missing Data Elements:
          Starting dates -- many N.A.S.A. programs are continuations or
          extensions of research that has been carried on over a long
          period of time.  Actual start dates are not available.
          Nonfederal funding -- not reported.

     Reporting Deviations:
          Recipient location as reported by N.A.S.A. is the place of
          performance.  This occasionally results in a research            institution being reported as located at a NASA research         center where the project is actually performed.  Grants to the
          Smithsonian Institution have been coded to recipient type code
          25. 
     
     Program Titles:
          All N.A.S.A. entries are listed as 43.AAA, designated as
          "Research Grants for the Space Program."

National Archives and Records Administration

     Missing Data Elements: SAI numbers are not reported. 

     Reporting Deviations:  None

National Endowment for the Arts

     Missing data elements: Waiver for Place of Performance
                         
     Reporting Deviations:    None

National Endowment for the Humanities

     Missing Data Elements:
          SAI Numbers -- all programs are exempt.
          Principal Place of Performance has a waiver.

     Reporting Deviations:  None

National Science Foundation

     Missing Data Elements:   None
          

     Reporting Deviations:  None









Nuclear Regulatory Commission

     All the data were extracted from administrative records by the
     FAADS staff. Records were assigned to CFDA Program Number 77.003,
     77.005 and 77.AAA. State Application Identifier information was
     not available; consequently, all records were recorded "SAI NOT
     AVAILABLE".  All geographic code information was generated, by
     the FAADS staff, from available recipient name and address
     information.

Railroad Retirement Board

     Missing Data Elements:  None

     Reporting Deviations:  None

     Note:     CFDA Program 57.001 (Social Insurance for Railroad
               Workers) is reported in two parts, enabling users to
               distinguish awards by type of benefit:

                   57.001 - Social Insurance for Railroad Workers,
                     retirement benefits
                   57.AAA - Social Insurance for Railroad Workers,
                     unemployment & sickness benefits
                                   
          
Small Business Administration
     
     Missing Data Elements:   None

     Reporting Deviations:    None

Smithsonian Institution
     
     Reporting Deviations:    None

     Missing Data Elements: SAI Number exempt.














Social Security Administration

     Missing Data Elements: None

     Reporting Deviations:    None

     Special Note:

     All data users must be aware that in prior fiscal years, Social
     Security Administration was a part of the Department of Health
     and Human Services which reported data under a different set of
     program numbers.  The accompanying table provides the current and
     the prior CFDA program numbers for the Social Security
     Administration programs.


Current                       Program Title                      Prior
CFDA                                                                  CFDA
Number                                                                Number

96.001         Social Security Disability Inusrance              93.802
96.002         Social Security Retirement Insurance              93.803
96.003         Social Security Special benefits for Persons 
                     Aged 72 & over                                   93.804
96.004         Social Security Survivors Insurance               93.805
96.005         Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners
                     (Black Lung)                                     93.806
96.006         Supplemental Security Income                      93.807
96.007         Social Security Research and Demonstration Grants 93.812


Transportation, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:  Waiver for all ending dates.
     
     Reporting Deviations:   All dates reflect month and year only.

Treasury - Internal Revenue Service

     IRS reported data for the entire year in the first quarter.


United States Information Agency

     Due to the low volume of financial assistance transactions, the
     agency will report such transactions only once each fiscal year,
     in the fourth quarter.  The transactions will be reported under
     two CFDA program numbers: 82.001 or 82.002.







United States Institute of Peace

     Due to the low volume of financial assistance transactions, the
     agency will report such transactions only once each fiscal year,
     in the fourth quarter.  The transactions will be reported under
     two CFDA program numbers: 91.001 or 91.002.
     
Veterans Affairs, Department of

     Missing Data Elements:  No FAIN number reported for a small      number of records.

     Reporting Deviations:  
          Federal Award Identifier Number -- not available for state
          home construction projects.