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Union Calendar No. 200 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3089 

[Report No. 114–264] 

To close out expired grants, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 16, 2015 

Mr. WALBERG (for himself and Mrs. LAWRENCE) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 

Additional sponsor: Mr. CARTER of Georgia 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 16, 2015] 


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A BILL 

To close out expired grants, and for other purposes. 


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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

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

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

7 (a) EXPIRED GRANT REPORT.— 

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

9 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of 

10 the Office of Management and Budget shall instruct 

11 the head of each agency, in coordination with the Sec12 retary, to submit to Congress and the Secretary a re13 port, not later than December 31 of the first calendar 

14 year beginning after the date of the enactment of this 

15 Act, that— 

16 (A) lists each covered grant held by such 

17 agency; 

18 (B) recommends which of the covered grants 

19 described in subparagraph (A) should be closed 

20 out; and 

21 (C) for each covered grant, explains why the 

22 covered grant has not been closed out. 

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

24 use existing multiagency data systems to prepare the 

25 report required under paragraph (1). 


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1 (3) EXPLANATION OF MISSING INFORMATION.—If 

2 the head of an agency is unable to submit all of the 

3 information required to be included in the report 

4 under paragraph (1), the report shall include an ex5 planation of why the information is not available, in6 cluding any shortcomings with existing grant data 

7 systems. 

8 (b) NOTICE FROM AGENCIES.— 

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

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

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

12 agency shall provide notice to the Secretary specifying 

13 whether the head of the agency has closed out grant 

14 awards associated with all of the covered grants. 

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

16 days after the date on which all of the notices re17 quired pursuant to paragraph (1) have been provided 

18 or March 31 of the calendar year following the cal19 endar year described in subsection (a)(1), whichever 

20 is sooner, the Secretary shall compile the notices sub21 mitted pursuant to paragraph (1) and submit to Con22 gress a report on such notices. 

23 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 


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1 (1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the mean2 ing given that term in section 551 of title 5, United 

3 States Code. 

4 (2) CLOSED OUT.—The term ‘‘closed out’’ means 

5 the closeout of a grant account conducted in accord6 ance with section 200 of title 2, Code of Federal Regu7 lations, including section 200.343 of such title, or any 

8 successor thereto. 

9 (3) COVERED GRANT.—The term ‘‘covered grant’’ 

10 means a grant in a Federal agency cash payment 

11 management system held by the United States Gov12 ernment for which— 

13 (A) the grant award period of performance, 

14 including any extensions, has been expired for 

15 not less than 2 years; and 

16 (B) the grant has not been closed out in ac17 cordance with section 200.343 of title 2, Code of 

18 Federal Regulations, or any successor thereto. 

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

20 the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 


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Union Calendar No. 200 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3089 

[Report No. 114–264] 

A BILL 

To close out expired grants, and for other purposes. 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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