Individual Federal awarding agencies which provide Federal Assistance
Award Data System data to the Census Bureau are fully and solely responsible
for the content of the data files. Title 31 Section 6102(a) of the United
States Code requires the establishment of a uniform system for reporting
information on Federal government financial assistance transactions, formally
known as the Federal Assistance Award Data System. In 1982, the Office of
Management and Budget designated the Census Bureau as the Executive Agent
for the Federal Assistance Award Data System. This designation requires the
Census Bureau to receive data files from Federal awarding agencies and
disseminate the data to the public through electronic files. Data users
should understand when accessing data from all Internet sources populated
with Federal Assistance Award Data System, Consolidated Federal Funds Report,
or Federal Aid to States data that the Census Bureau is not the originator,
but the repository of, the Federal agency award transaction information.
Questions relating to individual Federal awarding agency data should be
submitted to that Federal awarding agency for response, not to the Census
Bureau.
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