Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations

Resumen

This Notice offers interested parties an opportunity to comment on further proposed revisions to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-133, ``Audits of Institutions of Higher Education and Other Non-Profit Institutions,'' and the proposed consolidation of OMB Circular No. A-128, ``Audits of State and Local Governments,'' into Circular No. A-133 (with Circular A-128 being rescinded). This Notice also requests comment on two proposed information collections contained in the proposed revision to Circular A-133. These actions are being proposed to implement the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 (1996 Amendments), which were signed into law on July 5, 1996 (Public Law 104-156). In the proposed revisions to Circular A-133, as published in the Federal Register on March 17, 1995 (60 FR 14594), OMB stated an intent to seek modifications to the Single Audit Act of 1984 (1984 Act) and, upon passage, extend the provisions of Circular A-133 to include audits of States and local governments and then rescind Circular A-128. (Indian tribal governments are included under the definition of States and are covered under the 1984 Act, Circular A-128, the 1996 Amendments, and this propo