[Federal Register: June 15, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 113)]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
48 CFR Chapter 1
[Docket FAR 2009-0002, Sequence 4]
Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular
2005-33; 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 of 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) 2005-33 which amend the FAR. Interested
parties may obtain further information regarding these rules by
referring to FAC 2005-33, which precedes this document. These documents
are also available via the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Hada Flowers, Regulatory
Secretariat, (202) 208-7282. For clarification of content, contact the
analyst whose name appears in the table below.
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.
[FR Doc. E9-13976 Filed 6-12-09; 8:45 am]
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