Action Transmittal AT-94-03

Elimination of Annual Three-year Hardware and Software Configuration
Plan Requirement

Transmittal No. OCSE-AT-94-03                Date: June 8, 1994

TO:            STATE AGENCIES ADMINISTERING CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT 
               PLANS UNDER TITLE IV-D OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AND 
               OTHER INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS

SUBJECT:       Elimination of Annual Three-Year Hardware and Software 
               Configuration Plan Requirement

PURPOSE:       The purpose of this Action Transmittal is to inform 
               Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agencies of the 
               elimination of the requirement to submit a Three-Year 
               Hardware and Proprietary Software Configuration Plan 
               to the Office of Information Systems Management (OISM) 
               and update that plan annually.

BACKGROUND:    Section III. Equipment Configuration Plan of 
               OCSE-AT-84-14 required that States "requesting 90 
               percent funding of the hardware currently used in the 
               operation of the (Child Support Enforcement) CSE 
               system, . . . must submit a three-year configuration 
               plan showing the hardware and proprietary software 
               which will be claimed at the 90 percent expenditure 
               rate."  The configuration plan, which the State was 
               required to update annually, included the following 
               information:  description of the equipment, method of 
               acquisition, depreciation schedule, component cost, 
               maintenance cost, hardware location, and the cost and 
               description of proprietary software.  It also 
               contained statements concerning system growth and cost 
               allocation methodology.

DISCUSSION:    In the interest of streamlining the Federal approval 
               process, we are eliminating the requirement for States 
               to submit a Three-Year Hardware and Proprietary 
               Software Configuration Plan.  In the future, States 
               may include, within the operational budget of their 
               annual Advanced Planning Document Updates (APDU), an 
               estimate of the State's annual hardware and 
               proprietary software operating costs.  The Annual APDU 
               need not contain the level of detail about location or 
               acquisition method as was specified in the OCSE 
               AT-84-14.  Instead, the State should present the 
               estimated operational costs for hardware and operating 
               system software in the APD as line items of cost in 
               the Annual APDU's budget, with footnoted descriptions 
               as appropriate.  

EFFECTIVE
DATE:          Immediately Upon Issuance

SUPERSEDED
MATERIALS:     OCSE-AT-84-14, dated December 26, 1984, Section III. 
               Equipment Configuration Plan

INQUIRIES TO:  Division of Child Support Information Systems (DCSIS) 
               at (202) 401-6519.




               _________________________     
               Naomi B. Marr  
               Director  
               Office of Information Management Systems