80 FR 51609 - OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2016

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 164 (August 25, 2015)

OMB is issuing the OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2016 to report on the status of the discretionary caps and on the compliance of pending discretionary appropriations legislation with those caps. For fiscal year 2015, the report finds enacted appropriations to be within the spending limits. For fiscal year 2016, the report finds that if the current limits remain unchanged, under OMB's estimates of actions to date by both the House of Representatives and Senate for the 12 annual appropriations bills would result in a sequestration of approximately $3 million and $1 million, respectively, in discretionary programs in the defense category. The report also finds that fiscal year 2016 actions by the House of Representatives for the non-defense category would result in a sequestration of nearly $1.8 billion while OMB's estimate of actions by the Senate for the non-defense category are in compliance with the current spending limit. Finally, the report also contains OMB's Preview Estimate of the Disaster Relief Funding Adjustment for FY 2016.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 164 (Tuesday, August 25, 2015)]
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET


OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for 
Fiscal Year 2016

AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and 
Budget.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the OMB Sequestration Update Report 
to the President and Congress for FY 2016.

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SUMMARY: OMB is issuing the OMB Sequestration Update Report to the 
President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2016 to report on the status of 
the discretionary caps and on the compliance of pending discretionary 
appropriations legislation with those caps. For fiscal year 2015, the 
report finds enacted appropriations to be within the spending limits. 
For fiscal year 2016, the report finds that if the current limits 
remain unchanged, under OMB's estimates of actions to date by both the 
House of Representatives and Senate for the 12 annual appropriations 
bills would result in a sequestration of approximately $3 million and 
$1 million, respectively, in discretionary programs in the defense 
category. The report also finds that fiscal year 2016 actions by the 
House of Representatives for the non-defense category would result in a 
sequestration of nearly $1.8 billion while OMB's estimate of actions by 
the Senate for the non-defense category are in compliance with the 
current spending limit. Finally, the report also contains OMB's Preview 
Estimate of the Disaster Relief Funding Adjustment for FY 2016.

DATES: Effective Date: August 20, 2015. Section 254 of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 requires the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) to issue a Sequestration Update Report on 
August 20th of each year. With regard to this update report and to each 
of the three required sequestration reports, section 254(b) 
specifically states the following:

    SUBMISSION AND AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS.--Each report required by 
this section shall be submitted, in the case of CBO, to the House of 
Representatives, the Senate and OMB and, in the case of OMB, to the 
House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President on the day 
it is issued. On the following day a notice of the report shall be 
printed in the Federal Register.


ADDRESSES: The OMB Sequestration Reports to the President and Congress 
is available on-line on the OMB home page at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative_reports/sequestration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, Email address: 
[email protected], telephone number: (202) 395-5745, FAX number: 
(202) 395-4768. Because of delays in the receipt of regular mail 
related to security screening, respondents are encouraged to use 
electronic communications.

Shaun Donovan,
Director.
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