CDFI Fund: New TLR Submission AMIS Display and Associated Guidance Materials Launched

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) has released a new Transaction Level Report (TLR) submission and certification page in its Awards Management Information System (AMIS). This new display presents the TLR submission steps in a more user-friendly way for organizations completing their annual reporting requirements or applying for CDFI Certification. The new display includes the following enhancements:

CDFI Certification, CDFI Program, and CDFI Equitable Recovery Program (ERP)

• The ability for users to view whether or not a transaction falls within a Prequalified Investment Area (IA) as part of the output of the AMIS geocoding template.
• The ability for users to view Target Market Calculator results from prior years.
• The ability for users to delete not-yet-certified TLR data in a bulk fashion without assistance from the CDFI Fund.
• The ability for regulated entities that make only consumer loans or only non-consumer loans to certify their TLR data without assistance from the CDFI Fund.
• The ability for users to input coordinates or addresses for all loans in the TLR address object (previously, users first needed to obtain the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) codes for certain loan types). 
• The addition of new data fields and data objects for transactions counted toward the CDFI ERP.

New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program 

• The ability for users to correct errors between related records without having to modify uploaded files and restart the TLR submission process.
• Reformatting of Error Checking page for improved readability and faster error correction.
• A new display of important upcoming and past due dates, including NMTC interim certification.

The CDFI Fund has published the following guidance materials to its website (https://www.cdfifund.gov/amis-reporting) to provide additional information on the new display and enhancements:

1. Updated AMIS Guidance for the CDFI FA/ CDFI ERP/ CDFI Certification TLR Submission Process
2. Updated CDFI TLR Data Point Guidance & NMTC TLR Data Point Guidance 
3. Target Market Calculator Supplemental Guidance 
4. Video Walkthrough of New CDFI FA/ CDFI ERP/ CDFI Certification TLR Submission Process
5. Video Walkthrough of New NMTC TLR Submission Process
6. Video Walkthrough of the Geocoding Tool

NOTE: If your institution was in the process of adding TLR data but had not yet certified your TLR data by the date of this announcement, you may need to download and use the updated data templates to complete your TLR submission.

Questions

Questions about the new TLR display or guidance materials should be directed to the Financial Strategies and Research (FS&R) team via AMIS Service Request (preferred), or by email at cdfi-financialstrategiesandresearch@cdfi.treas.gov.