Guidance for Drug-Free Workplace Requirements

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing guidance on drug-free workplace requirements for financial assistance. OMB is proposing to issue this guidance as an administrative simplification that will streamline the policy framework for drug-free workplace requirements in two ways.

• First, the guidance is in a form suitable for Federal agency adoption, which will reduce the volume of Federal regulations on drug-free workplace, make it easier for the affected public to use them, and make it easier and less expensive for the Federal Government to maintain them.
• Second, the guidance is located in the recently established Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR). Locating the OMB guidance in 2 CFR will make it easier to find. It also is the first step toward co-locating in the same CFR title the agencies' regulations that implement the guidance, a further simplification for the public.

This notice also proposes a minor change to the previously issued 2 CFR part 1, to conform that part with the guidance published today.

DATES: Comments are due on or before October 27, 2008.