Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 117 / Monday, June 18, 2001 / Notices 32823

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

[Document Nos. JFMIP–SR–01–2]

Joint Financial Management

Improvement Program (JFMIP)—

Federal Financial Management System

Requirements (FFMSR)

June 11, 2001.

AGENCY: Joint Financial Management

Improvement Program (JFMIP).

ACTION: Notice of document availability.

SUMMARY: The JFMIP is seeking public

comment on exposure draft titled JFMIP

Core Financial System Requirements

‘‘JFMIP–SR–01–02’’, dated June 11,

2001. The exposure draft is being issued

to update the February 1999 ‘‘ Core

Financial System Requirements.’’ The

exposure draft incorporates new JFMIP

requirements for Core Financial

Systems. They are designed to provide

financial managers with

governmentwide mandatory

requirements for financial systems in

order to process and record financial

events effectively and efficiently, and to

provide complete, timely, reliable, and

consistent information for decisionmakers and the public.

DATES: Comments are due August 20,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Core Financial

System Requirements exposure draft

have been mailed to Agency Senior

Financial Officials and are available on

the JFMIP website http://www.jfmip.gov.

Comments should be addressed to

JFMIP, 1990 K Street NW, Suite 430,

Washington, DC 20006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephen R. Balsam, (202) 219–0531,

stephen.balsam@gsa.gov, regarding the

Core Financial System Requirements.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: The Federal

Financial Management Improvement

Act of 1996, (FFMIA), mandated that

agencies implement and maintain

systems that comply substantially with

Federal financial management systems

requirements, applicable Federal

accounting standards, and the U.S.

Government Standard General Ledger at

the transaction level. The FFMIA statute

codified the JFMIP financial systems

requirements documents as a key

benchmark that agency systems must

meet in order to be substantially in

compliance with systems requirements

provisions under FFMIA. To support

the requirements outlined in FFMIA, we

are updating requirements documents

that are obsolete and publishing

additional requirements documents.

The Core Financial System

Requirements document establishes

standard requirements for the backbone

modules of an agency’s integrated

financial management system. The

major functions supported by a Core

Financial System are: Core Financial

System Management, General Ledger

Management, Funds Management,

Payment Management, Receipt

Management, Cost Management,

Technical and Reporting. These eight

functions provide common processing

routines, support common data for

critical financial management functions

affecting the entire agency, and

maintain the required financial data

integrity control over financial

transactions, resource balances and

other financial management systems.

This update reflects the most recent

changes in laws and regulations, such as

FACTS II, and clarifies previous

requirements. JFMIP’s Knowledgebase

website can be used to obtain an

electronic copy of the changes that have

been made to the Core Financial System

Requirements document. The

Knowledgebase can be accessed through

the JFMIP website http://www.jfmip.gov.

The exposure draft contains only

mandatory requirements on which the

vendor software certification test will be

based and value-added requirements for

optional functionality.

Comments received will be reviewed

and the exposure draft will be revised

as necessary. Publication of the final

requirements will be mailed to agency

senior financial officials and will be

available on the JFMIP website.

Karen Cleary Alderman,

Executive Director, Joint Financial

Management Improvement Program.

[FR Doc. 01–15256 Filed 6–15–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 1610–02–U

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request: Proposed Revised Public

Financial Disclosure Access Customer

Service Survey

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics

(OGE).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public

and executive branch agencies that, after

this first round notice and comment

period, OGE plans to submit an updated

OGE Public Financial Disclosure Access

Customer Service Survey form to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for review and three-year

extension of approval under the

Paperwork Reduction Act. This notice

also identifies a couple of minor

revisions proposed to one of the survey

questions.

DATES: Comments by the public and

agencies on this proposed information

collection as proposed for revision and

extension are invited and should be

received by September 4, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent

to: James V. Parle, Chief, Office of

Information Resources Management,

Office of Government Ethics, Suite 500,

1201 New York Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20005–3917.

Comments may also be sent

electronically to OGE’s Internet E-mail

address at usoge@oge.gov (for E-mail

messages, the subject line should

include the following reference—

‘‘Public Financial Disclosure Access

Customer Service Survey Paperwork

comment’’).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Parle at the Office of Government

Ethics; telephone: 202–208–8000, ext.

1113; TDD: 202–208–8025; FAX: 202–

208–8037. A copy of the proposed

Survey form may be obtained, without

charge, by contacting Mr. Parle.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office

of Government Ethics uses the Public

Financial Disclosure Access Customer

Service Survey form to assess requester

satisfaction with the service provided by

OGE in responding to requests by

members of the public for access to

copies of Standard Form (SF) 278

Executive Branch Personnel Public

Financial Disclosure Reports on file

with OGE. Most of the SF 278 reports

available at OGE are those filed by

executive branch Presidential

appointees subject to Senate

confirmation. Requests for access to SF

278 reports are made pursuant to the

special public access provision of

section 105 of the Ethics in Government

Act of 1978 (the Ethics Act), as codified

at 5 U.S.C. appendix 105, and

procedures in 5 CFR 2634.603 of OGE’s

executive branchwide regulations

thereunder, by completing an OGE Form

201, ‘‘Request to Inspect or Receive

Copies of SF 278 Executive Branch

Personnel Public Financial Disclosure

Report or Other Covered Record.’’

The survey forms are distributed to

requesters along with copies of

requested SF 278 reports with

instructions asking them to complete

and return the survey to OGE via the

self-contained postage-paid postcards

(the reverse side of the survey form,

when folded, becomes a pre-addressed

postcard). The purpose of the survey is

to determine through customer

responses how well OGE is responding

to such requests and how OGE can

improve its customer service in this

important area. The current paperwork

approval for the survey form is