Selected Agency Budget Justifications for
FY2013
Justin Murray
Information Research Specialist
March 30, 2012
Congressional Research Service
7-5700
www.crs.gov
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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2013
Summary
This report provides a convenient listing of online FY2013 agency budget justification
submissions for all 15 executive branch departments and 9 selected independent agencies. In most
cases, budget justifications contain more detailed descriptions of proposals and programs than are
provided in the President’s budget submissions.
This report will be updated to reflect the current budget justification submissions for the
forthcoming fiscal year.
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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2013
Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................................... 1
Online Access to Budget Justifications............................................................................................ 1
Executive Departments.............................................................................................................. 1
Selected Independent Agencies ................................................................................................. 2
Contacts
Author Contact Information............................................................................................................. 3
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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2013
Introduction
Each summer, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issues instructions to all federal
agencies on submitting budget data and materials for inclusion in the President’s budget
documents. These instructions are in a document entitled, Circular No. A-11: Preparation,
Submission, and Execution of the Budget. 1 After the President’s budget documents are released in
February, Congress begins to hold hearings on agency budget requests. Agencies must submit
budget justifications to the appropriations subcommittees holding the hearings. Beginning with
the FY2008 budget cycle, agencies are required to post their congressional budget justification
materials on the Internet within two weeks of transmittal to Congress.2
Budget justifications generally contain more detailed descriptions of an agency’s proposals and
programs than are provided in the President’s budget submission to Congress, with the form and
content of these justifications varying by agency and appropriations subcommittee. 3
CRS Report RS20268, Agency Justification of the President’s Budget, by Bill Heniff Jr. provides
a short overview of agency justifications. In addition to providing a broader perspective on the
budget process, CRS Report RS20095, The Congressional Budget Process: A Brief Overview, by
James V. Saturno, includes a discussion of how the President’s budget submission fits into the
subsequent congressional budget process.
Online Access to Budget Justifications
Online access to FY2013 budget justification documents for each of the 15 executive departments
and 9 independent agencies are provided below.4 When direct links to FY2013 budget
justification materials are not available, brief guidance for navigating to FY2013-specific
materials are provided below the links.
Executive Departments
Department of Agriculture
http://www.obpa.usda.gov/explan_notes.html
Department of Commerce
http://www.osec.doc.gov/bmi/budget/FY13CBJ.html
1 Circular A-11 is available on the White House website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
circulars_a11_current_year_a11_toc. See Section 22.6.
2 Ibid.
3 Additional details on the proposals and programs may also be available directly from the agencies themselves via
congressional liaison or governmental affairs contacts listed in CRS Report 98-446, Congressional Liaison Offices of
Selected Federal Agencies, by Audrey Celeste Crane-Hirsch. A listing of agencies included within each of the 12
regular appropriations bills is available in CRS Report R40858, Locate an Agency or Program Within Appropriations
Bills, by Justin Murray.
4 These are the nine current independent agencies specified under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, P.L. 101-
576, 31 USC 501.
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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2013
Department of Defense
http:// http://comptroller.defense.gov/budget2013.html
Department of Education
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget13/justifications/index.html
Department of Energy
http://www.cfo.doe.gov/budget/13budget/index13.html
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/budget
See the section on Budget Justifications to Congress, which provides links to individual parts of
the FY2013 Budget submission to Congress.
Department of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/budget/dhs-budget.shtm.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/cfo/reports/2013/main_toc
Department of the Interior
http://www.doi.gov/budget
Department of Justice
http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2013justification
Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/dol/budget
Department of State
http://www.state.gov/s/d/rm/rls/statecbj/2013
Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/budget/2013/budgetestimates.html
Department of Treasury
http://www.treasury.gov/about/budget-performance/Pages/cj-index.aspx
Department of Veterans Affairs
http://www.va.gov/budget/products.asp
Selected Independent Agencies
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/planandbudget/annualplan/fy2013.html
Click on Fiscal Year 2013 Justification of Appropriation Estimates for the Committee on
Appropriations.
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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2013
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html
Click on FY2013 Complete Budget Estimate.
Agency for International Development (AID)
http://www.usaid.gov/performance/cbj/index.html
General Services Administration (GSA)
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/102463
Click on FY2013 Congressional Justification.
National Sciences Foundation (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget
Click on Fiscal Year 2013 Request.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1100/
Click on Congressional Budget Justification: Fiscal Year 2013.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
http://www.opm.gov/budget
Click on Fiscal Year 2013.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
http://www.sba.gov/about-sba-services/217
Click on FY2013 Congressional Budget Justification and FY2011 Annual Performance Report.
Social Security Administration (SSA)
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/budget
Click on Full Justification of Estimates for Appropriations Committee, February 2012.
Information and policy analysis of the 12 regular appropriations bills themselves are available via
the CRS Appropriations Status Table by clicking on the corresponding CRS report for each bill at
http://www.crs.gov/Pages/AppropriationsStatusTable.aspx. Additional budget submissions to
Congress for sub-agencies or quasi-government agencies may also be available online. An
extensive and more comprehensive listing of all federal agencies and offices is available in the
current United States Government Manual, at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVMAN-2011-
10-05/pdf/GOVMAN-2011-10-05.pdf.
Author Contact Information
Justin Murray
Information Research Specialist
jmurray@crs.loc.gov, 7-4092
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