Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements With Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, Other Non-Profit Organizations, and Commercial Organizations

These final rules establish new regulations providing standards in the administration of SSA grants and agreements with institutions of higher education, hospitals, other non-profit organizations, and commercial organizations. The Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994, enacted August 15, 1994, established SSA as an independent agency separate from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), effective March 31, 1995. To implement its own set of grants administration regulations, we are codifying almost verbatim the text of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular Number A-110, "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals, and Other Non-profit Organizations." These final rules codify in SSA regulations the requirements in OMB Circular A-110, and along with the final rules we are publishing elsewhere in today's Federal Register, establish SSA grants regulations, separate from the HHS regulations, effective upon publication.