The Duplicative Grant Consolidation Act would prevent federal agencies from awarding grants to applicants who have already received grants for the same purpose from another agency, or who submit fraudulent applications. To enforce this rule, the Office of Management and Budget would be required to establish a new electronic tracking system within one year that allows agencies and their inspectors general to check whether grant applicants have already received or applied for identical funding elsewhere. The system would include applicant names, principal investigators, award periods, and project abstracts, and would also track "substantially the same research" across multiple federal agencies to identify overlapping proposals. The bill exempts colleges and universities from the duplication prohibition, recognizing that higher education institutions may legitimately receive multiple grants for similar work. Additionally, the bill directs OMB to study whether artificial intelligence could be used to identify duplicative applications and detect waste, fraud, and abuse in federal grant programs.
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