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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3089 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

AN ACT 

To close out expired grants, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Grants Oversight and 

3 New Efficiency Act’’ or the ‘‘GONE Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. IDENTIFYING AND CLOSING OUT EXPIRED GRANTS. 

5 (a) EXPIRED GRANT REPORT.— 

6 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 

7 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di8 rector of the Office of Management and Budget 

9 shall instruct the head of each agency, in coordina10 tion with the Secretary, to submit to Congress and 

11 the Secretary a report, not later than December 31 

12 of the first calendar year beginning after the date of 

13 the enactment of this Act, that— 

14 (A) lists each covered grant held by such 

15 agency; 

16 (B) provides the total number of covered 

17 grants, including the number of grants— 

18 (i) by time period of expiration; 

19 (ii) with zero dollar balances; and 

20 (iii) with undisbursed balances; 

21 (C) for an agency with covered grants, de22 scribes the challenges leading to delays in grant 

23 closeout; and 

24 (D) for the 30 oldest covered grants of an 

25 agency, explains why each covered grant has 

26 not been closed out. 


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1 (2) USE OF DATA SYSTEMS.—An agency may 

2 use existing multiagency data systems in order to 

3 submit the report required under paragraph (1). 

4 (3) EXPLANATION OF MISSING INFORMATION.— 

5 If the head of an agency is unable to submit all of 

6 the information required to be included in the report 

7 under paragraph (1), the report shall include an ex8 planation of why the information was not available, 

9 including any shortcomings with and plans to im10 prove existing grant systems, including data sys11 tems. 

12 (b) NOTICE FROM AGENCIES.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 

14 the date on which the head of an agency submits the 

15 report required under subsection (a), the head of the 

16 agency shall provide notice to the Secretary speci17 fying whether the head of the agency has closed out 

18 grant awards associated with all of the covered 

19 grants in the report and which covered grants in the 

20 report have not been closed out. 

21 (2) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 90 

22 days after the date on which all of the notices re23 quired pursuant to paragraph (1) have been pro24 vided or March 31 of the calendar year following the 

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1 ever is sooner, the Secretary shall compile the no2 tices submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) and sub3 mit to Congress a report on such notices. 

4 (c) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW.—Not later than 

5 1 year after the date on which the head of an agency pro6 vides notice to Congress under subsection (b)(2), the In7 spector General of such agency with more than $500 mil8 lion in grant funding shall conduct a risk assessment to 

9 determine if an audit or review of the agency’s grant close10 out process is warranted. 

11 (d) REPORT ON ACCOUNTABILITY AND OVER12 SIGHT.—Not later than 6 months after the date on which 

13 the second report is submitted pursuant to subsection 

14 (b)(2), the Director of Office of Management and Budget, 

15 in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human 

16 Services, shall submit to Congress a report on rec17 ommendations for legislation to improve accountability 

18 and oversight in grants management, including the timely 

19 closeout of a covered grant. 

20 (e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

21 (1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 

22 meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, 

23 United States Code. 

24 (2) CLOSEOUT.—The term ‘‘closeout’’ means a 

25 closeout of a grant account conducted in accordance 


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1 with part 200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regula2 tions, including sections 200.16 and 200.343 of such 

3 title, or any successor thereto. 

4 (3) COVERED GRANT.—The term ‘‘covered 

5 grant’’ means a grant in an agency cash payment 

6 management system held by the United States Gov7 ernment for which— 

8 (A) the grant award period of perform9 ance, including any extensions, has been expired 

10 for not less than 2 years; and 

11 (B) closeout has not yet occurred in ac12 cordance with section 200.343 of title 2, Code 

13 of Federal Regulations, or any successor there14 to. 

15 (4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

16 the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 28, 

2015. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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