 In addition to these tasks, the Federal Program Information Act requires the GSA to provide federal assistance information to the general public through the "Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance" (CFDA), a free register, which incorporates both federal agency and federal program information.This register acts both as a directory and as a dictionary, facilitating both recipients and the general public in finding information of a specific program.Currently, programs in the Catalog are being classified by the GSA into 15 types of assistance, which are then sub-classified into seven financial types of assistance and eight non-financial types of assistance