PF 2023-16 Waiving Matching Fund Requirements for Insular Areas

DATE: February 16, 2023

SUBJECT: Waiving Matching Fund Requirements for Insular Areas

TO: HCAs/Procurement Directors/Contracting Officers
FROM: Director, Contract and Financial Assistance Policy Division, Office of Policy, Office of Acquisition Management

SUMMARY: Attached is Controller Alert CA-23-04 entitled Waiving Matching Fund Requirements for Insular Areas, distributed to the Chief Financial Officers Council by the Acting Controller of the Office of Management and Budget, on February 6, 2023. The Controller Alert reminds agencies of the requirement of Public Law 96-205, title VI, section 601, Mar. 12, 1980, as amended, regarding waiver of local matching funds
requirements for financial assistance to “insular areas” (the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).

For DOE questions concerning this policy flash, please email: DOE_oapmpolicy@hq.doe.gov

For NNSA questions concerning this policy flash, please contact NNSA at (505) 845-4337.