S.Amdt. 4293

SA 4293. Mr. BOND submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 4899, making emergency supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and summer jobs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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federal transparency

Sec 20. For all programs administered competitively or as sole source, the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and any other large agencies (with staffing over 500 FTEs) are required to file in the Federal Register the following transparency information, including, but limited, to information including the name, address and phone number of each successful grantee, and each grant award amount. Each agency shall provide the minimum criteria and process for the decisionmaking. Within three days prior to publication in the Federal Agency, all cost shares and leveraging of funds within the grant program shall be included as well as any other sources of Federal, State or private funds. In addition, within three days of publication, each relevant agency shall be required to submit to the primary House and Senate committees all back-up information and materials on the methodology of the award selections, including how these awards are consistent with program assistance and goals; also included shall be all benchmarks and deadlines including rationales for the program(s).”.