[Federal Register: January 7, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 4)]
[Rules and Regulations]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Chapter 1
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Small Entity Compliance Guide
AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Small Entity Compliance Guide.
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SUMMARY: This document is issued under the joint authority of the
Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of General Services and the
Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
This Small Entity Compliance Guide has been prepared in accordance with
Section 212 of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
of 1996. It consists of a summary of rules appearing in Federal
Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2001-19 which amend the FAR. An asterisk (*)
next to a rule indicates that a regulatory flexibility analysis has
been prepared. Interested parties may obtain further information
regarding these rules by referring to FAC 2001-19, which precedes this
document. These documents are also available via the Internet at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.arnet.gov/far
.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laurie Duarte, FAR Secretariat, (202)
501-4225. For clarification of content, contact the analyst whose name
appears in the table below.
List of Rules in FAC 2001-19
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Item Subject FAR case Analyst
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I...................... New Consolidated 2000-608A Davis.
Form for
Selection of
Architect-
Engineer
Contractors.
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II..................... Free Trade 2003-016 Davis.
Agreements--Chil
e and Singapore,
and Trade
Agreements
Thresholds
(Interim).
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Item I--New Consolidated Form for Selection of Architect-Engineer
Contractors (FAR Case 2000-608A)
This amendment to final rule, FAR Case 2000-608, New Consolidated
Form for Selection of Architect-Engineer Contractors, changes the
effective date from January 12, 2004, to June 8, 2004. This final rule
was published in FAC 2001-018 in the Federal Register at 68 FR 69227,
December 11, 2003. This amendment also eliminates the reference to an
applicability date. By changing the effective date, it allows the users
of the SF 330 more time to prepare before the SF 330 is effective.
Item II--Free Trade Agreements--Chile and Singapore, and Trade
Agreements Thresholds (Interim) (FAR Case 2003-016)
This interim rule amends FAR parts 5, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 22, 25,
and 52 to implement new Free Trade Agreements with Chile and Singapore,
as approved by Congress (Pub. L. 108-77 and 108-78). These Free Trade
Agreements are scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2004. Singapore
is already a designated country under the Trade Agreements Act, but
Chile was not previously a designated country. The threshold under
these Free Trade Agreements for acquisition of end products and
services is $58,550 and the threshold for construction contracts is
$6,725,000. In acquisitions that exceed these thresholds and are
subject to trade agreements, this rule allows the acquisition of end
products or construction material from Chile or Singapore without
application of the Buy American Act, and provides for certain
procedures in the acquisition of services, unless the service is
excluded from coverage by the trade agreement. The interim rule directs
the contracting officer to determine the origin of a service by the
country in which the firm providing the services is established. The
interim rule also implements new dollar thresholds for application of
trade agreements, as published by the U.S. Trade Representative in the
Federal Register at 68 FR 70861, December 19, 2003. Contracting
officers must review the new thresholds in order to select the
appropriate clauses to implement the Buy American Act, trade
agreements, and sanctions of European Union country end products and
services.
Dated: December 30, 2003.
Laura Auletta,
Director, Acquisition Policy Division.
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