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November 18, 1992
The attached was prepared as a response to Ann Gray's
recent question about Federal Outlays data ..............
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Dear Ann:

I am responding to your request of November 13, 1992 for
information about the availability of data files containing
federal government expenditures at the local level for the years
1981 and 1982.  You pointed out in your request that in the
Records of the Communty Services Administration (CSA, Record
Group 381) is a data series titled Federal Outlays, which
contains the type of information you seek.  CSA had
responsibility for this series until 1980 and Census created a
similiar series in 1983 titled the Consolidated Federal Funds
Report (CFFR).  You are interested to know whether similar data
was created for the intervening years.

We are unaware whether Federal Outlays or CFFR were created by
either agency during the years 1981-1982.  However, the holdings
files related to the spending patterns of the US Government.  One
series is the Federal Assistance Award Data System (FAADS).  Data
have been compiled quarterly, FY1981 through the third quarter of
FY1992, and transferred to us.  For FY1981 these records were
compiled by the CSA.  For the first quarter of FY1982 they were
compiled by General Services Administration; thereafter they have
been compiled by the Bureau of the Census on behalf of the Office
of Management and Budget.  The files contain data on all federal
domestic assistance awards reported by participating agency
programs including all major federal departments and agencies
with grant making authority.

For more information about the records in our collection, please
contact the Center for Electronic Records (NSX), ATTN: Reference
Services, National Archives and Records Administration,
Washington, DC 20408.  The phone number is (202) 501-5579.  We
may also be contacted via Internet at tif@cu.nih.gov or BITNET at
TIF@NIHCU.  A partial, hardcopy, title list of holdings is made
available free of charge to interested individuals.  This title
list includes approximately 4,500 of the 14,000 electronic data
files in the collection of the Center.

Ted Hull Center for Electronic Records, National Archives, (202)
501-5579