Corrective action plan:
CNC – Food and Nutrition Department revised the internal Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
(FFATA) reporting procedures to ensure that all subaward/subaward amendment obligations over $30,000 are
identified and submitted in Federal Funding Accountability and...
Corrective action plan:
CNC – Food and Nutrition Department revised the internal Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act
(FFATA) reporting procedures to ensure that all subaward/subaward amendment obligations over $30,000 are
identified and submitted in Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act Subaward Reporting System
(FSRS) by the last day of the month following the month in which the subaward/subaward amendment obligation
was made or the subcontract award/subcontract modification was made.
TDA FND provided correspondence emails and incident reports documentation with screenshots for the FSRS
technical issues to CLA:
CNC_NSLP grant: TDA FND informed CLA auditors that agency has been experiencing significant
technical difficulties uploading the FFATA data into FSRS. During these attempts, the system shows the
following error message: "Sub-awardee Awardee Address - Congressional District could not be
validated/matched from the provided address and zip+4." Unfortunately, this occurred on numerous
uploads (300-400) every time an attempt was made. As a disclaimer, a single error will prevent an entire
report from being uploaded into the system. TDA FND staff has contacted the FSRS helpdesk many
times to no avail, resulting in reports not being uploaded and causing TDA FND to be behind on the
FFATA reporting.
FFVP grant: TDA allocates FFVP funds to CEs during two periods of operation. If CEs do not spend the
funds, then TDA must either (1) reallocate or (2) let the funds lapse and return to USDA. Considering the
nature of the grant allocation and USDA requirements of maximizing grant spending to benefit schools
during this process, it might cause a discrepancy between what was reported on the FFATA report and
what was adjusted after the fact.
As of today, the system error continues to occur with TDA FND staff having little to no control over it. TDA would
like to emphasize that the help desk process with FSRS is not expedient and would cause the loss of employee
productivity if the burden to remedy the systems issues (beyond recording unsuccessful attempts) was delegated
to the state.
TDA FND staff will continue to prepare the reports and attempt to submit them as required. TDA FND Staff will
document instances where the upload is unsuccessful.
CDBG – TDA will ensure that all FFATA reports are submitted timely.
For CDBG, program staff has implemented procedures to ensure that FFATA reports are prepared, reviewed by
the Director of CDBG Programs, and submitted on a monthly basis.
Implementation dates: CDBG: January 2024
CNC: March 1, 2024
Responsible persons: CDBG: Suzanne Barnard, Director for CDBG Programs
CNC: Anwar Sophy, Administrator, TDA FND Business Management