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U.S. AGENCY FOR GLOBAL MEDIA 

2 CFR Chapter XIX 

22 CFR Part 518 

[3112–AA05] 

Uniform Administrative Requirements, 

Cost Principles, and Audit 

Requirements for Federal Awards 

AGENCY: U.S. Agency for Global Media 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the U.S. 

Agency for Global Media (USAGM or 

the Agency) adopts the Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance) 

initially set forth as guidance by the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) and published by OMB on 

December 26, 2013, and updated on 

April 4, 2024. This rule is necessary in 

order to incorporate into regulation and 

thus bring into effect the Uniform 

Guidance as required by OMB. 

Implementation of this guidance will 

reduce administrative burden and risk 

of waste, fraud, and abuse related to the 

Federal financial assistance awarded 

each year by the Agency. To avoid 

confusion, we additionally supersede 

existing agency regulations related to 

this same subject matter. 

DATES: This regulation is effective 

December 11, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information, please contact 

Trina Mixson, Acting Chief Financial 

Officer, Office of the Chief Financial 

Officer, U.S. Agency for Global Media, 

330 Independence Ave. SW, 

Washington, DC 20237; 202–322–9320; 

tmixson@usagm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

USAGM is an independent 

establishment of the federal government 

that exercises authority over nonmilitary United States government 

broadcasting. USAGM oversees two 

federal entities—Voice of America and 

the Office of Cuba Broadcasting—and 

five grantee non-profit organizations— 

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio 

Free Asia, the Middle East Broadcasting 

Networks, the Open Technology Fund, 

and the Frontline Media Fund. Its 

broadcasting networks reach a 

cumulative weekly worldwide audience 

of more than 400 million people. 

On December 19, 2014, OMB and 

more than 30 other federal agencies 

issued an interim final rule that 

implemented the final guidance on 

Uniform Administrative Requirements, 

Cost Principles, and Audit 

Requirements for Federal Awards 

(Uniform Guidance). In that interim 

final rule, Federal awarding agencies 

joined together to implement the 

Uniform Guidance in their respective 

chapters of title 2 of the CFR, and, 

where approved by the OMB, 

implemented any exceptions to the 

Uniform Guidance by including the 

relevant language in their regulations. 

The intent of this effort was to 

simultaneously reduce administrative 

burden and the risk of waste, fraud, and 

abuse while delivering better 

performance. Implementation of the 

Uniform Guidance became effective on 

December 26, 2014 (79 FR 75867, 

December 19, 2014). 

On April 4, 2024, OMB revised that 

guidance to incorporate recent OMB 

policy priorities related to Federal 

financing assistance and to reduce 

agency and recipient burden. The 

updated guidance seeks to improve 

Federal financial assistance 

management, transparency, and 

oversight through more accessible and 

readily comprehensible guidance and 

clarifies sections of the prior version of 

the guidance. 

Although USAGM’s predecessor 

agency, the Broadcasting Board of 

Governors, did not implement the 

guidance when initially codified in 

2014, for the past several years USAGM 

has incorporated the guidance in its 

Federal financial assistance agreements. 

USAGM now takes the opportunity of 

the recent updates to join the more than 

30 federal agencies that have already 

done so. USAGM does so to bring its 

federal assistance processes in line with 

best practices suggested by OMB, 

streamline its financial assistance 

processes, and increase transparency. 

To avoid confusion, the agency 

additionally supersedes existing agency 

regulations relating to the same subject 

matter. 

II. Justification To Issue Final Rule 

Under the Administrative Procedure 

Act, a federal agency may issue a final 

rule without first issuing a notice of 

proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in several 

circumstances. Two apply to this rule. 

First, an agency need not issue a 

proposed rulemaking to a matter 

relating to agency management or 

personnel or to public property, loans, 

grants, benefits, or contracts. This rule 

qualifies as a rule of agency procedure 

and practice related to the issuance and 

monitoring of federal awards. The 

Administrative Procedure Act therefore 

excepts this rule from traditional notice 

and comment periods. 

Second, an agency must first find that 

issuing an NPRM would be impractical, 

unnecessary, or contrary to the public 

interest. As stated above, this rule 

incorporates—in full and without 

change—the Uniform Guidance 

developed by OMB. OMB initially 

issued the guidance only after 

considering public comment received 

following both an Advanced Notice of 

Public Guidance (available at 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number OMB–2012–0002) and Notice of 

Proposed Guidance (available at 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number OMB–2013–0001). Combined, 

those two dockets received more than 

650 total comments. The public enjoyed 

similar opportunity to comment on the 

guidance more recently. OMB provided 

multiple opportunities for public 

comment when issuing the 2024 

revisions to that guidance, including a 

Request for Information (available at 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number OMB–2023–0007) and Notice of 

Proposed Guidance (available at 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number OMB–2023–0017). Combined, 

those two dockets received more than 

1150 total comments. Any NPRM issued 

by USAGM would be redundant of 

previous efforts by OMB, and is 

therefore unnecessary. 

III. Procedural Matters 

a. Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act 

requires that agencies obtain OMB 


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approval before conducting a collection 

of information from the public. Any 

information collected under the 

regulations proposed does not to 

constitute a collection of information for 

the purposes of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

b. Executive Order 12866 (Regulatory 

Planning and Review), Executive Order 

13563 (Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review), and Executive 

Order 14094 (Modernizing Regulatory 

Review) 

Executive Orders 12866, 13563, and 

14094 direct agencies to assess all costs 

and benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives, and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, distributive impacts, and 

equity). OMB’s Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) 

designated the implementation of the 

Uniform Guidance by OMB and more 

than 25 other agencies to be not 

significant in 2014. USAGM similar 

concludes that its implementation is not 

significant and therefore is not subject 

to mandatory prior review by the OIRA 

pursuant to Executive Orders 12866, 

13563, or 14094. 

c. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 

1995 

The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

requires that agencies prepare a 

budgetary impact statement before 

promulgating a rule that may result in 

the expenditure by State, local, and 

tribal governments, or by the private 

sector, of $100 million or more in any 

one year. Upon first implementing the 

Uniform Guidance, OMB determined 

that its joint interim final rule will not 

result in expenditures by State, local, 

and tribal governments, or by the 

private sector, of $100 million or more 

in any one year. USAGM concurs. 

Therefore, no actions are necessary 

under the provisions of the Unfunded 

Mandates Reform Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C. 

1532. 

d. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act 

requires an agency issuing a final rule 

to provide a final regulatory flexibility 

analysis or to certify that the rule will 

not have a significant economic impact 

on a substantial number of small 

entities. In accordance with the RFA, 

USAGM certifies that this rule will not 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities, 

and thus no regulatory flexibility 

analysis is required under 5 U.S.C. 603. 

e. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism 

Assessment) 

Executive Order 13132 limits an 

agency’s ability to promulgate rules that 

have federalism implications, impose 

substantial compliance costs on state 

and local governments, or pre-empt 

state and local law. This proposed rule 

will not have sufficient federalism 

implications to warrant the preparation 

of a federalism assessment pursuant to 

Executive Order 13132. 

List of Subjects in 2 CFR Part 1900 

Accounting, Administrative practice 

and procedure, Grant programs, Grants 

administration, Loan programs, 

Nonprofit organizations, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements. 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, and under the authority of 5 

U.S.C. 301 and 2 CFR part 200, the U.S. 

Agency for Global Media adds chapter 

XIX to 2 CFR subtitle B, consisting of 

parts 1900 through 1999, and removes 

22 CFR part 518 as follows: 

Title 2—Grants and Agreements 

Subtitle B—Federal Agency 

Regulations for Grants and 

Agreements 

CHAPTER XIX—U.S. AGENCY FOR 

GLOBAL MEDIA 

PART 1900—UNIFORM 

ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, 

COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT 

REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL 

AWARDS 

Sec. 

1900.1 Adoption of 2 CFR part 200. 

1900.2 [Reserved] 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 2 CFR part 200 

PART 1900—UNIFORM 

ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, 

COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT 

REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL 

AWARDS 

§ 1900.1 Adoption of 2 CFR Part 200. 

The United States Agency for Global 

Media adopts the Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards set forth at 2 CFR part 

200. Thus, this part gives regulatory 

effect to the terms of 2 CFR part 200 (as 

effective October 1, 2024). 

§ 1900.2 [Reserved] 

PARTS 1901–1999 [Reserved] 

Dated: December 4, 2024. 

Amanda Bennett, 

Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Agency for 

Global Media. 

[FR Doc. 2024–28864 Filed 12–10–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8610–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2024–0228; Project 

Identifier MCAI–2022–00599–T; Amendment 

39–22881; AD 2024–23–02] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Bombardier, 

Inc., Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new 

airworthiness directive (AD) for certain 

Bombardier, Inc., Model BD–700–1A10 

and BD–700–1A11 airplanes. This AD 

was prompted by a determination that 

new or more restrictive airworthiness 

limitations for certain brake 

accumulators are necessary. This AD 

requires revising the existing 

maintenance or inspection program, as 

applicable, to incorporate new or more 

restrictive airworthiness limitations. 

This AD also requires determining the 

accumulated landings on the affected 

brake accumulators. The FAA is issuing 

this AD to address the unsafe condition 

on these products. 

DATES: This AD is effective January 15, 

2025. 

The Director of the Federal Register 

approved the incorporation by reference 

of certain publications listed in this AD 

as of January 15, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: 

AD Docket: You may examine the AD 

docket at regulations.gov under Docket 

No. FAA–2024–0228; or in person at 

Docket Operations between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The AD docket 

contains this final rule, the mandatory 

continuing airworthiness information 

(MCAI), any comments received, and 

other information. The address for 

Docket Operations is U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. 


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