Department/Agency shutdown guidance information
Date: January 10, 2019 at 7:37:59 AM PST
Below, please find information compiled by UC FGR that offers shutdown guidance:
With the partial federal government shutdown still underway, we wanted to share guidance from various affected departments and agencies on how they plan to proceed until Congress and the White House negotiate a plan to re-open the government.
As a reminder, the following spending bills expired on Dec. 21: Agriculture; Commerce, Justice, Science; Financial Services and General Government; Homeland Security; Interior, Environment; State, Foreign Operations; and Transportation, Housing and Urban Development.
Frequently asked questions:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Frequently-Asked-Questions-During-a-Lapse-in-Appropriations.pdf
Links to agency contingency plans:
- Department of Ed: https://ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/010919Chngsto1819and1920VerificationReq.html (guidance re: income verification for FAFSA while IRS retrieval tool is down)
- Department of Ed: https://ifap.ed.gov/eannouncements/010919CPSProcessSelecSvcMatchDurPartGovtShut.html (guidance re: FAFSA Processing Without Selective Service System Match due to shutdown)
- EPA: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-12/documents/epa_contingency_plan_december_18_2018_508.pdf
- NSF: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/shutdown19001/shutdown19001.pdf; https://www.nsf.gov/shutdown/grantees.jsp; https://www.nsf.gov/shutdown/panelists.jsp
- USDA: https://www.usda.gov/shutdownplans; https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/usda-ree-shutdown-plan.pdf
- NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/181218_revised_shutdown_plan.pdf
- USAID: https://www.usaid.gov/documents/management/dec-21-2018-guidance-usaid-operations-during-lapse-appropriations
- Transportation: https://www.transportation.gov/lapse
- NEH: https://www.neh.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/administrative_directive_m-500_-_september_2018_update.pdf
- NEA: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Agency-Operations-in-the-Absence-of-Appropriations-03.22.18.pdf
- Department of Commerce: https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/DOC%20Lapse%20Plan%20-%20OMB%20Approved%20-%20Dec%2017%2C%202018.pdf (includes NIST/NOAA); https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2018/12/shutdown-due-lapse-congressional-appropriations
- NIST: See Dept of Commerce; https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2018/12/26/letter_for_contractors_12.26.2018.pdf (notice to NIST contractors)
- NOAA: See Dept of Commerce
- Department of Interior: https://www.doi.gov/shutdown
