28434 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 113 / Monday, June 15, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

48 CFR Chapter 1 

[Docket FAR 2009–0002, Sequence 4] 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; 

Federal Acquisition Circular 2005–33; 

Small Entity Compliance Guide 

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DoD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Small Entity Compliance Guide. 

SUMMARY: This document is issued 

under the joint authority of the 

Secretary of Defense, the Administrator 

of General Services and the 

Administrator of the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

This Small Entity Compliance Guide has 

been prepared in accordance with 

Section 212 of the Small Business 

Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 

1996. It consists of a summary of rules 

appearing in Federal Acquisition 

Circular (FAC) 2005–33 which amend 

the FAR. Interested parties may obtain 

further information regarding these 

rules by referring to FAC 2005–33, 

which precedes this document. These 

documents are also available via the 

Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Hada Flowers, Regulatory Secretariat, 

(202) 208–7282. For clarification of 

content, contact the analyst whose name 

appears in the table below. 

LIST OF RULES IN FAC 2005–33 

Item Subject FAR case Analyst 

I ............ Trade Agreements—Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru (Interim) .......................................................... 2008–036 Murphy. 

II ........... Contractor’s Request for Progress Payments ................................................................................. 2005–032 Murphy. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summaries for each FAR rule follow. 

For the actual revisions and/or 

amendments to these FAR cases, refer to 

the specific item number and subject set 

forth in the documents following these 

item summaries. 

FAC 2005–33 amends the FAR as 

specified below: 

Item I—Trade Agreements—Costa Rica, 

Oman, and Peru (FAR Case 2008–036) 

(Interim) 

This interim rule allows contracting 

officers to purchase the goods and 

services of Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru 

without application of the Buy 

American Act if the acquisition is 

subject to the applicable trade 

agreements. The free trade agreements 

with Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru join 

the North American Free Trade 

Agreement (NAFTA), the Australia, 

Bahrain, Chile, Morocco, and Singapore 

Free Trade Agreements, and the 

Dominican Republic-Central AmericaUnited States Free Trade Agreement 

(CAFTA–DR) with respect to the 

Dominican Republic, El Salvador, 

Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, 

which are already in the FAR. 

The threshold for supplies and 

services is $67,826 for the CAFTA-DR 

and $194,000 for the Oman and Peru 

FTAs. The threshold for construction is 

$7,443,000 for the CAFTA-DR and the 

Peru FTA and $8,817,449 for the Oman 

FTA. 

Item II—Contractor’s Request for 

Progress Payments (FAR Case 2005– 

032) 

This final rule converts the proposed 

rule published at 73 FR 19035 on April 

8, 2008, to a final rule with one editorial 

change. This final rule incorporates 

improvements related to requests for 

progress payments and the Standard 

Form (SF) 1443, Contractor’s Request for 

Progress Payments, used to request 

those progress payments. 

Dated: June 9, 2009. 

Al Matera, 

Director, Office of Acquisition Policy. 

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