The term Release Date is used to signify the date material was posted on the ADS web site.

Series 100 Interim Update #05-01, Delegation of Authority, Duty, or Responsibility to USPSCs and Non-U.S. Citizen Employees, to be included in ADS 103, Delegations of Authority, and ADS 621, Obligations

Issued: 01/12/2005

Release Date: 01/24/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

The policy on what authority, duty, or responsibility may be delegated to U.S. Personal Services Contractors (USPSCs) and non-U.S. citizen employees is being revised to clarify the issue of obligation authority and for other purposes. This revision will be incorporated into ADS 103, Delegations of Authority, and ADS 621, Obligations, in the near future.

FY 2005 Statutory Checklists, an additional help document for ADS 200-203

Revision: 01/06/2005

Release Date: 01/12/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

Fiscal Year 2005 Statutory Checklists is a revised list of regulations that replaces the Fiscal Year 2004 Statutory Checklists. Rather than a line-by-line replacement, General Counsel (GC) replaces the entire reference. This reference is a mandatory reference for ADS 202. The checklists are intended to be convenient references when planning and implementing assistance programs. The checklists do not have every country prohibition or restriction. Consult the attorneys assigned to your Bureau or Mission to determine if there are additional country-specific or activity-specific prohibitions and notwithstanding authorities.

2005 Appropriation Codes, a mandatory reference for ADS 260

Revision: 01/07/2005

Release Date: 01/12/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This revision to the 2005 Appropriation Codes (also known as the Lookup Table) includes an update to the appropriation codes, country codes, and function codes. With the implementation of the MACS Auxiliary Ledger in AID/W in FY 2001, the three-digit appropriation code from the CFR Allotment System became obsolete. It has been replaced in the table by the Phoenix Fund Code. The Phoenix Fund Code is the budget fiscal year/letter code that identifies the Treasury Appropriation/Fund account in the Phoenix system.

Series 200 Interim Update #05-02, Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Task Force

Issued: 01/11/2005

Release Date: 01/26/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

Acting Administrator Frederick Schieck has directed the immediate establishment of the Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction Task Force (TRR-TF). The Task Force will be responsible for setting USAID policy in response to the disaster in Asia, providing operational guidance of program activities, and recommending resource allocations for all programs in the affected countries.

Series 200 Interim Update #05-01, The Nine Principles of Development

Issued: 01/04/2005

Release Date: 01/11/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This IU discusses USAID’s revised nine principles of development. USAID has been able to distill the fundamental lessons learned throughout USAID's experience into a series of principles that describe the way it approaches, understands, and assesses its endeavors.

USAID Worldwide Purchase Card Program Manual, a mandatory reference for ADS 331

Revision: 01/06/2005

Release Date: 01/12/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This revision of the Purchase Card Program Manual was made to correct a typo in the reference. On page 22 of the Manual, it should not indicate "construction above $2000"; rather, the reference was changed to indicate "construction not to exceed $2000".

Series 300 Interim Update #05-03, Correction – Participation by Religious Organizations in USAID Programs; Final Rule

Issued: 01/25/2005

Release Date: 01/26/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This final rule implements Executive Branch policy that, within the framework of constitutional guidelines, religious (or "faith-based") organizations should be able to compete on an equal footing with other organizations for USAID funding.

Series 300 Interim Update #05-02, Participation by Religious Organizations in USAID Programs; Final Rule

Issued: 01/24/2005

Release Date: 01/26/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This IU discusses the final rule that implements Executive Branch policy that, within the framework of constitutional guidelines, religious (or "faith-based") organizations should be able to compete on an equal footing with other organizations for USAID funding.

Series 300 Interim Update #05-01, A Brand New Year

Issued: 01/07/2005

Release Date: 01/11/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

USAID has developed a new standard "Identity" that clearly communicates the aid is from the American people; it will be used consistently on everything from publications to project plaques, food bags to folders, business cards to banners. The new brand standards are compulsory for all Agency employees and contractors, and must be applied now to all programs, projects, activities, and public communications.

Series 400 Interim Update #05-01, Amendment to ADS 461, Part 1, Foreign Service Employee Evaluation Guidebook, to be included in a future revision of ADS 461

Issued: 01/13/2005

Release Date: 01/26/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This IU issues a change to ADS Chapter 461.3.1.4 (b), "Who Is On the AC?." The text there has been superceded by the following:

"ACs are established at the beginning of the rating cycle and must include at least three members, not including Rating Officials. Rating Officials who are members of an AC must recuse themselves as members and may not participate in AC deliberations when the AC reviews the AEFs they prepared as Rating Officials and when the AC reviews their own AEF.

At least one member of the AC other than the Rating Official must be familiar with the work of the rated employee whose performance the AC will review. Large Operating Units may establish more than one AC to effectively review all employees.

The Principal Officer for each Operating Unit must establish the AC. The Officer must appoint only U.S. direct-hire career employees or untenured career candidates. Untenured limited, non-career officers will not be allowed to serve on appraisal committees. Administratively Determined (AD) employees are ineligible to serve on ACs. Only one career candidate may serve on the AC and the untenured career candidate officer will not be allowed to serve as the committee chairperson.

It is the responsibility of the Principal Officer of the Mission or operating unit to determine that the service of an untenured officer will facilitate the successful and timely completion of the employee evaluation process."

Series 400 Interim Update #04-09, Pay and Leave Procedures for Two Holidays-- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday and Inauguration Day, 2005

Issued: 12/29/2004

Release Date: 01/11/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

There are two Federal holidays--Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday, on Monday, January 17, 2005, and Inauguration Day, on Thursday, January 20, 2005—which both fall within the same pay period, Pay Period 1, which begins on January 9, 2005, and ends on January 22, 2005. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has provided Federal agencies with pay and leave procedures for these two holidays.

ADS 501, The Automated Directives System

Revision: 12/23/2004

Release Date: 01/07/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This chapter has been modified to include policy and procedures about the new adjudication process. The adjudication process is a new mandatory policy that is intended to ease stalemates over chapter clearances. If the adjudication process in invoked, then both the authoring office and the clearing office present their case to the Agency Counselor.

Clearance List for ADS Material, an internal mandatory reference for ADS 501

Revision: 01/10/2005

Release Date: 01/12/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

The list of authorized senders was revised with the following changes:

• Chad Weinberg's name was removed for PPC and replaced with Bradford Greene.
• The new ADS Editor, Dwayne Day, was added to M/AS/IRD.
• For M/OAA, Racquel Powell's name was removed and replaced with Diane Howard (acting).

Series 600 Interim Update #05-02, Delegation of Authority, Duty, or Responsibility to USPSCs and Non-U.S. Citizen Employees, to be included in ADS 103, Delegations of Authority, and ADS 621, Obligations

Issued: 01/12/2005

Release Date: 01/26/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

The policy on what authority, duty, or responsibility may be delegated to U.S. Personal Services Contractors (USPSCs) and non-U.S. citizen employees is being revised to clarify the issue of obligation authority and for other purposes. This revision will be incorporated into ADS 103, Delegations of Authority, and ADS 621, Obligations, in the near future.

Series 600 Interim Update #05-01, 2005 Appropriation Codes

Issued: 01/12/2005

Release Date: 01/24/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This IU introduces the January 7, 2005 revision of the 2005 Appropriation Codes (also known as the Lookup Table). This revision includes an update to the appropriation codes, country codes, and function codes.

Series 600 Interim Update #04-22, Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriation

Issued: 12/09/2004

Release Date: 01/11/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This IU asserts that the President has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, Division D which includes the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2005. The Office of General Counsel will be providing further information on USAID specific details of the Act in the near future.

Series 600 Interim Update #04-21, Fiscal Year 2005 Appropriation

Issued: 12/06/2004

Release Date: 01/11/2005

New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:

This IU announces that the President has signed into law, H.J. Res. 115, a Continuing Resolution (CR) providing funding to Federal agencies including USAID and the authority to continue operations through December 8, 2004 unless the omnibus appropriations bill is enacted into law prior to that date.

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