Volume 96 · 1607
Public Law 97–326
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 15, 1982
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
Consolidated Federal Funds Report Act of 1982.
Definitions.
Funds Report Act of 1982.”
Sec. 2.
As used in this Act, the term—
“Director” means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
“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
“municipality” means any subcounty unit of local government that received Federal assistance under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 (31 U.S.C. 1221) for the appropriate fiscal year.
Sec. 3.
For fiscal years 1983, 1984, and 1985, not later than one
Report.
hundred and eighty 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 in 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 The report shall be in the form described in subsection (b) and shall be based on the data referred to in subsection (c).
The Director shall include in each report required by subsection
Contents.
(a)—
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
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.
The report required by subsection (a) shall be based on the data included in—
the Federal assistance awards data system established as a result of the study referred to in the first sentence of section 8;
the Federal procurement data system referred to in section 6(d)(5) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 405(d)(5));
the appropriate data file of the Office of Personnel Management; and
the records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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.
Sec. 4.
The Director shall prepare a report setting forth the total amount of Federal funds that were obligated for expenditure in or expended in each State in appropriate general categories of Federal funds during each of the fiscal years 1981 and 1982. The report shall be in the form described in subsection (b).
The Director shall include in each report required by subsection (a)—
the total amount of Federal funds that were reported obligated for expenditure in each State in appropriate general categories of Federal funds in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the report is made; or
the total amount of Federal funds that were reported actually expended in each State in appropriate general categories in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the report is made.
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, direct Federal payments to individuals, pay of civilian employees of the Government, military pay, annuities, retirement pay, pensions, disability compensation, and other large programs or categories where data are available such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Army Corps of Engineers.
The reports required by subsection (a) shall be available no later than one hundred and twenty days after the end of fiscal year 1982.
Sec. 5.
The Director shall—
prepare—
printed copies of each of the reports required by this Act; and
computer tapes of such reports; and
make the printed copies of the reports and the computer tapes available to the public for purchase at a price fixed under subsection (b).
The Director shall transmit free of charge one of each of the printed copies of the reports required by this Act to—
each Federal regional depository library;
the Committees on Government Operations, the Budget, and Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
the Committees on Governmental Affairs, the Budget, and Appropriations of the Senate.
The Director shall also promptly transmit, free of charge, one computer tape of the report required by section 3 annually and of the data in the system required by section 8 quarterly to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives.
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.
In carrying out subsection (a)(1)(B), the Director shall, based on
Price fixing.
the estimates made under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, fix the price of each printed copy and each computer tape of the report so that the aggregate revenues obtained in each fiscal year under subsection (a) will cover as much of the incremental costs incurred in making these reports and tapes available for purchase by the public as is feasible. In computing these costs the Director shall not consider the costs of the activities set forth in sections 7, 8, and 10, but shall consider—
the cost of compiling the reports required by this Act; preparing the printed copies and computer tapes under subsection (a); and distributing the printed copies and the computer tapes of the report for each fiscal year; and
the number of printed copies and the number of computer tapes of the report that will be purchased.
Sec. 6.
In order to carry out sections 3, 4, and 5 of this Act, 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 7.
Sec. 7.
Each head of any authority of the Government having
custody of the data files and systems referred to in section 3(c) shall make available to the Director or other authority to which the Director has delegated the responsibility to carry out such section, such information, administrative services, equipment, personnel, and facilities as the Director or such authority requires to carry out such section.
Sec. 8.
The Director shall operate and maintain, and update on
Federal assistance awards data system, maintenance.
a quarterly basis, the Federal assistance awards data system established as a result of the study conducted by the Director under section 9 of the Federal Program Information Act (31 U.S.C. 1701 note).
In order to carry out subsection (a), the Director—
may delegate to any authority of the executive branch of the Federal Government the responsibility for carrying out subsection (a), and
shall review any reports submitted to him by Federal agencies in the process of carrying out subsection (a) and may validate, by appropriate means, the processes by which Federal agencies prepared such reports.
Sec. 9.
The Director shall designate a single organizational unit to
provide for data consistency and uniform reporting of data elements.
Sec. 10.
The Comptroller General shall conduct a review of the
Review.
data systems and reports required by this Act. This review shall include a determination of the accuracy of the data contained within the report required by section 3 and the costs of data collection, report preparation, and dissemination of such data and report. The review shall also include an analysis of the use and primary users of the data. In making this review, the Comptroller General shall consult with Members of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, the Office of Management and Budget, the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives, the Census Bureau, representatives of State and local governments, and any other persons he deems appropriate. This review shall be submitted to the Committee
Submittal to congressional committees.
on Governmental Affaire of the Senate and the Committee on Operations of the House of Representatives no later than October 1, 1984.
Sec. 11.
Each head of any executive department or establishment that has compiled or can readily compile data that would have been included in the reports entitled “the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds” for fiscal year 1981 or fiscal year 1982, or both, shall forward a copy of such to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives. Delivery of such shall be made within sixty days after enactment of this Act for fiscal year 1981 and within one hundred and twenty days of the close of the fiscal year for fiscal year 1982.
Each head of any executive department or establishment who does not forward a copy of data as required by subsection (a) for fiscal year 1981 or fiscal year 1982 shall submit a statement to that effect, along with a statement of the reasons for the failure, to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate and to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives.
Approved October 15, 1982.