[Federal Register: June 15, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 113)]
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Part IV
Department of Defense
General Services Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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48 CFR Chapter 1; Parts 32, et al.
Federal Acquisition Regulations; Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-33;
FAR Case 2008-036, Trade Agreements; Final Rules, Interim Rule, and
Small Entity Compliance Guide
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Chapter 1
[Docket FAR 2009-0001, Sequence 4]
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular
2005-33; Introduction
AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration
(GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Summary presentation of rules.
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SUMMARY: This document summarizes the Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) rules agreed to by the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and
the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council in this Federal Acquisition
Circular (FAC) 2005-33. A companion document, the Small Entity
Compliance Guide (SECG), follows this FAC. The FAC, including the SECG,
is available via the Internet at http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.regulations.gov.
DATES: For effective dates and comment dates, see separate documents,
which follow.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The analyst whose name appears in the
table below in relation to each FAR case. Please cite FAC 2005-33 and
the specific FAR case numbers. For information pertaining to status or
publication schedules, contact the FAR Secretariat at (202) 501-4755.
List of Rules in FAC 2005-33
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Item Subject FAR case Analyst
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I.............. Trade Agreements--Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru 2008-036 Murphy.
(Interim).
II............. Contractor's Request for Progress Payments... 2005-032 Murphy.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Summaries for each FAR rule follow. For the
actual revisions and/or amendments to these FAR cases, refer to the
specific item number and subject set forth in the documents following
these item summaries.
FAC 2005-33 amends the FAR as specified below:
Item I--Trade Agreements--Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru (FAR Case 2008-
036) (Interim)
This interim rule allows contracting officers to purchase the goods
and services of Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru without application of the
Buy American Act if the acquisition is subject to the applicable trade
agreements. The free trade agreements with Costa Rica, Oman, and Peru
join the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Australia,
Bahrain, Chile, Morocco, and Singapore Free Trade Agreements, and the
Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA-DR) with respect to the Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, which are already in the FAR.
The threshold for supplies and services is $67,826 for the CAFTA-DR
and $194,000 for the Oman and Peru FTAs. The threshold for construction
is $7,443,000 for the CAFTA-DR and the Peru FTA and $8,817,449 for the
Oman FTA.
Item II--Contractor's Request for Progress Payments (FAR Case 2005-032)
This final rule converts the proposed rule published at 73 FR 19035
on April 8, 2008, to a final rule with one editorial change. This final
rule incorporates improvements related to requests for progress
payments and the Standard Form (SF) 1443, Contractor's Request for
Progress Payments, used to request those progress payments.
Dated: June 9, 2009.
Al Matera,
Director, Office of Acquisition Policy.
Federal Acquisition Circular
Federal Acquisition Circular (FAC) 2005-33 is issued under the
authority of the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of General
Services, and the Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
Unless otherwise specified, all Federal Acquisition Regulation
(FAR) and other directive material contained in FAC 2005-33 is
effective June 15, 2009 except for Item II, which is effective July 15,
2009.
Dated: June 9, 2009.
Shay D. Assad,
Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy.
Dated: June 5, 2009.
Rodney P. Lantier,
Acting Senior Procurement Executive, Office of the Chief Acquisition
Officer, U.S. General Services Administration.
Dated: June 8, 2009.
William P. McNally,
Assistant Administrator for Procurement, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
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