16.545 Federal aid management service. A federal aids management service shall be established in the department of administration:
(1) To fully inform the governor, the legislature, state agencies and the public of available federal aid programs.
(2) To fully inform the governor and the legislature of pending federal aid legislation.
(3) To advise the governor and the legislature of alternative and recommended methods of administering federal aid programs.
(4) To study and interpret the effect of federal aid programs on the administration of state government and the pattern of state government finances.
(5) To assist in the coordination of broad federal aid programs which are administered by more than one state agency.
(6) To maintain an information center on federal aid programs.
(7) To analyze and advise on proposed federal aid budgets submitted to the governor and the joint committee on finance under s. 16.54 (5).
(8) To serve as the state central information reception center for the receipt and dissemination of such federal grant-in-aid information as provided by federal agencies pursuant to section 201 of the federal intergovernmental cooperation act of 1968. The department shall report all such information to the governor and to the joint committee on finance.
(9) To initiate contacts with the federal government for the purpose of facilitating participation by agencies, as defined in s. 16.70 (1e), in federal aid programs, to assist those agencies in applying for such aid, and to facilitate influencing the federal government to make policy changes that will be beneficial to this state. The department may assess an agency to which it provides services under this subsection a fee for the expenses incurred by the department in providing those services.
History: 1975 c. 39; 1983 a. 192 s. 303 (3); 1983 a. 308, 538; 1995 a. 27; 2001 a. 16; 2003 a. 33.
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