31 U.S.C. § 6102: Program information requirements

title; authorizing law; administering office; and an identifying number assigned by the Director. program; objectives of the program; types of activities financed under the program; eligibility requirements; types of assistance; uses, and restrictions on the use, of assistance; uses of core-based statistical area (as defined in section 4 of the MAPS Act of 2021) delineations (as chosen from standardized categories of uses determined by the Director), for purposes including prime recipient and subrecipient eligibility for, and distribution of, any Federal service, benefit, or funding; and duties of recipients under the program. the language used to specify each such formula in the law authorizing the program; the language used to specify each such formula in any Federal rule promulgated pursuant to the law authorizing the program; or a mathematical statement which is derived from the language referred to in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph; a description of all data and statistical estimates used to carry out each formula specified pursuant to paragraph (3), and an identification of the sources of such data and estimates; amounts appropriated for the current fiscal year or, if unavailable, the amounts requested by the President and the amounts obligated; and average amounts of awards made in past years. identification of information contacts, including the administering office and regional and local offices with their addresses and telephone numbers. the application requirements and procedures; and to the extent practical, an estimate of the time required to process the application. On request of the Director, an agency shall give to the Director current information on all domestic assistance programs administered by the agency. The Director shall be responsible for ensuring that the Administrator incorporates all relevant information received on a regular basis. shall ensure that information and catalogs under this chapter are made available to the public at reasonable prices; may develop information services to assist State and local governments in identifying and obtaining sources of assistance; shall ensure that the information in the computerized system is made current on a regular basis and that the printed catalog and supplements thereto contain the most current data available at the time of printing; and shall transmit annually the information compiled under paragraphs (3) and (4) of subsection (a) to the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate. Federal programs use core-based statistical area delineations to determine the delivery of Federal services, benefits, and funding to people in the United States, such as in criteria for eligibility or distribution. Core-based statistical area delineations provide a nationally consistent set of standards for collecting, tabulating, and publishing Federal statistics for geographic areas, and they are not intended for any public or private sector non-statistical uses such as program administration or service delivery. Updates to core-based statistical area delineations may cause widespread disruption to the delivery of Federal services, benefits, and funding to people in the United States based on the reliance of Federal programs on these delineations. There does not exist any comprehensive list of Federal programs that rely on core-based statistical area delineations. Such a list is valuable for the study of how Federal services, benefits, and funding are distributed to people in the United States. Increased transparency on the impacts of any update to core-based statistical area delineations may be overly burdensome due to the anticipated variety of Federal programs that rely on these delineations. Any requirement for complete disclosure of these impacts prior to implementation of new delineations may unintentionally cause the existing delineations to ossify. In order to prevent any disruption to service delivery of Federal programs based on updates to core-based statistical area delineations, and ensure the independence of Federal statistical policymaking, Congress must sever the link between future updates to core-based statistical area delineations and any automatic impact on Federal programs that rely on these delineations.” transparency in how core-based statistical area delineations are used in domestic assistance programs; and independence of the Office of Management and Budget in establishing and updating core-based statistical area delineations.” whether the most current core-based statistical area delineation has been affirmatively adopted pursuant to section 6309 of title 31 , United States Coded [sic], as added by this Act; which historical core-based statistical area delineation was maintained, in cases where an updated delineation has not been affirmatively adopted pursuant to section 6309 of title 31 , United States Coded [sic], as added by this Act; to determine eligibility for any Federal service, benefit, or funding; to determine distribution of any Federal service, benefit, or funding; and any other standardized category of purpose determined by the Director; prime recipient of any Federal service, benefit, or funding; and subrecipient of any Federal service, benefit, or funding; and the date when the information collected in this subsection was last updated.” publicly accessible as an open Government data asset; presented in a user-friendly visual format with search and download capabilities; easily discoverable by the public on relevant government websites; and updated not less frequently than once every year.” The term ‘agency’ has the meaning given the term in section 551 of title 5 , United States Code. The term ‘Comptroller General’ means the Comptroller General of the United States. The term ‘core-based statistical area’ has the meaning given the term by the Office of Management and Budget in the Notice of Decision entitled ‘2020 Standards for Delineating Core-Based Statistical Areas’, published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 37770), or any successor to that Notice. The term ‘Director’ means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The term ‘domestic assistance program’ has the meaning given the term in section 6101 of title 31 , United States Code. The term ‘open Government data asset’ has the meaning given the term in section 3502 of title 44 , United States Code.”