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Public Law 99–547

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare an annual report consolidating the available data on the geographic distribution of Federal funds, and for other purposes.

Approved October 27, 1986

Statutory text

An Act

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare an annual report consolidating the available data on the geographic distribution of Federal funds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Section 1.

This Act may be cited as the “Consolidated Federal Funds Report Amendments of 1985”.

Sec. 2.

(a)

Title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 61 the following new chapter:

“CHAPTER 62— CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL FUNDS REPORT

“§ 6201. Definitions

“As used in this chapter, the term—

“(1)

‘Director’ means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

“(2)

‘State’ means any State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Government of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and “(3) ‘municipality’ means any subcounty unit of general local government that received Federal assistance in the fiscal year that is the subject of the report.

“§ 6202. Content, form and data for report

“(a)

For fiscal years 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990, not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Director shall prepare a Consolidated Federal Funds Report presenting the total amount of Federal funds that were obligated for expenditure or expended in each State, county or parish, congressional district, and municipality of the United States in appropriate general categories of Federal funds during the preceding fiscal year. To the extent practicable, such categories shall be consistently constituted from year to year. The report shall be in the form described in subsection (b) and shall be based on the data referred to in subsection (c).

“(b)

The Director shall include in each report required by subsection (a)—

“(1)

the total amount of Federal funds that were reported obligated for expenditure in each State, county or parish, congressional district, and municipality of the United States in appropriate general categories of Federal funds in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the report is made; or

“(2)

the total amount of Federal funds that were reported actually expended in each State, county or parish, congressional district, and municipality of the United States in appropriate categories in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the report is made.

“(c) Grants.Loans.

The report required by subsection (a) shall be based on the data included in—

“(1)

the Federal assistance awards data system established

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pursuant to section 6102a of this title;

“(2)

the Federal procurement data system established pursuant to section 6(d)(5) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 405(d)(5));

“(3)

the appropriate data files of the Office of Personnel Management;

“(4)

the payroll, pension, and grants files of the Office of the Secretary of Defense;

“(5)

the appropriate data files of the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission;

“(6)

the data system used by the Bureau of the Census to prepare the annual Federal aid to States report;

“(7) Uniformed services.

the retirement and disability files of the United States Coast Guard, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Foreign Service;

“(8) Insurance.

the insurance claims files of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Agriculture;

“(9)

the grants files of the Legal Services Corporation;

“(10) Taxes.

the excess earned income tax credit file of the Internal Revenue Service;

“(11)

the appropriate data files of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation; and

“(12)

the payroll file of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“(d) Grants.Loans.Contracts.Government organization and employees.Retirement.

For the purposes of subsection (b), the general categories of Federal funds presented in each report required by subsection (a) shall include data with respect to grants, loans, purchases and contracts, cooperative agreements, direct Federal payments to individuals, pay of civilian employees of the Government, military pay, annuities, retirement pay, pensions, and disability compensation.

“§ 6203. Printing and distribution of reports and machine-readable records

“(a)
(1)

The Director shall—

“(A)

prepare—

“(i)

printed copies of each of the reports required by this chapter; and

“(ii)

machine-readable records of such reports; and

“(B) Public information.

make the printed copies of the reports and the machine-readable records available to the public for purchase at a price fixed under subsection (b).

“(2)

The Director shall transmit free of charge one of each of the printed copies of the reports required by this chapter to—

“(A) Libraries.

each Federal regional depository library;

“(B)

the Committees on Government Operations, the Budget, and Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and

“(C)

the Committees on Governmental Affairs, the Budget, and Appropriations of the Senate.

“(3)

The Director shall also transmit promptly after the end of each calendar year, free of charge, one machine-readable record of the report required by section 6202 to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives.

“(4)

Subject to subsection (b), the Director may, at his discretion, waive all or part of the fee required by subsection (a)(1)(B) of this section.

“(b)

In carrying out subsection (a)(1)(B), the Director shall, based

Public information.

on the estimates made under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, fix the price of each printed copy and each machine-readable record of the report so that the aggregate revenues obtained in each fiscal year under subsection (a) will cover as much as is feasible of the incremental costs incurred in making these reports and machine-readable records available for purchase by the public. In computing these costs the Director shall not consider the costs of the activities set forth in sections 6102a and 6205 of this title but shall

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consider—

“(1)

the cost of compiling the reports required by this chapter; preparing the printed copies and machine-readable records under subsection (a); and distributing the printed copies and the machine-readable records of the report for each fiscal year; and

“(2)

the number of printed copies and the number of machine-readable records of the report that will be purchased.

“§ 6204. Delegation

“In order to carry out sections 6202 and 6203 of this chapter, the Director may delegate to any authority of the executive branch of the Federal Government the responsibility for carrying out such sections. The Director shall oversee the activities of any authority to which responsibilities are delegated under this section and shall monitor the compliance of each authority with respect to the requirements set forth in section 6205.

“§ 6205. Availability of information

“Each head of any authority of the Government having custody of the data files and systems referred to in section 6202(c)—

“(1)

shall make available to the Director (or other authority to which the Director has delegated the responsibility to carry out such section) the information requested in the form designated; and

“(2)

is authorized to make available to the Director (or such other authority) such administrative services, equipment, personnel, and facilities (and funds appropriated therefor) as the Director or such authority requires to carry out such section.

“§ 6206. Data consistency and uniformity of data elements

“The Director shall designate a single organizational unit to provide for data consistency and uniform reporting of data elements.

“§ 6207. Authorization of appropriations

“There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this chapter such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990.”.

(b)
(1)

Section 6102a of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

“(c)

The Director shall transmit promptly after the end of each calendar quarter, free of charge, the data in the system required by subsection (a) to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives.”.

(2)

Section 6101(4)(B) of such title is amended by striking out everything after “does not include” and inserting “assistance from an agency for an agency”.

(c)

The table of chapters for subtitle V of title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item pertaining to chapter 61 the following new item:

(d) Effective date.

Effective on May 1, 1986, the Consolidated Federal Funds

31 USC 6102 note.

Report Act of 1982 is repealed.

Approved October 27, 1986.

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