Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2014

Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2014

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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for
FY2014
Justin Murray
Information Research Specialist
May 3, 2013
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Selected Agency Budget Justifications for FY2014

Summary
This report provides a convenient listing of online FY2014 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 FY2014

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 FY2014

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
submission to Congress. 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, Congress begins to hold hearings on agency budget requests.2 Agencies must submit
budget justifications to the appropriations subcommittees holding the hearings. Beginning with
the FY2008 executive budget cycle, agencies are required to post their congressional budget
justification materials on the Internet within two weeks of transmittal to Congress.3
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. 4
CRS Report RS20268, Agency Justification of the President’s Budget, by Michelle D.
Christensen, provides a short overview of agency justifications. In addition to providing a broader
perspective on the budget process, CRS Report 98-721, Introduction to the Federal Budget
Process, coordinated by Bill Heniff Jr., 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 websites containing links to FY2014 budget justification documents for each of
the 15 executive departments and 9 independent agencies are provided below.5 As needed, brief
guidance for navigating to FY2014-specific materials is provided below the links.
Executive Departments
Department of Agriculture
http://www.obpa.usda.gov/explan_notes.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. Note these requirements pertain to Executive Branch agencies
but not to legislative and judicial agencies, in general.
2 The OMB released the President’s FY2014 Budget submission on April 10, 2013.
3 See Circular A-11, Section 22.6.
4 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.
5 These are the nine 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 FY2014

Department of Commerce
http://www.osec.doc.gov/bmi/budget/FY14CBJ.html
Department of Defense
http://comptroller.defense.gov/budget2014.html
Department of Education
http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget14/justifications/index.html
Department of Energy
http://energy.gov/about-us/budget-performance
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 FY2014 Budget submission to Congress.
Department of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget
Department of Housing and Urban Development
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/cfo/reports/2014/main_toc
Department of the Interior
http://www.doi.gov/budget/index.cfm
Department of Justice
http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2014justification/
Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/dol/budget/
Department of State
http://www.state.gov/s/d/rm/rls/ebs/2014/pdf/index.htm
Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/mission/budget/fy2014-budget-estimates
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://www2.epa.gov/planandbudget/fy2014
Click on FY 2014 Justification of Appropriation Estimates for Committee on Appropriations.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html
Click on FY2014 Complete Budget Estimate.
Agency for International Development (AID)
http://www.usaid.gov/results-and-data/budget-spending/congressional-budget-justification
Click on Congressional Budget Justification –Executive Summary, and individual component
links including Foreign Assistance Summary Tables.
General Services Administration (GSA)
http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/102463
Click on FY2014 Congressional Justification.
National Sciences Foundation (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/
Click on Fiscal Year 2014 Request.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1100/
Click on Congressional Budget Justification: Fiscal Year 2014.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
http://www.opm.gov/about-us/budget-performance/budgets/#url=Congressional-Budget-
Justification
Click on Fiscal Year 2014.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
http://www.sba.gov/about-sba-services/21731
Social Security Administration (SSA)
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/budget/#ht=0
Click on the FY2014 tab.
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-2012-
12-07/pdf/GOVMAN-2012-12-07.pdf.

Author Contact Information
Justin Murray
Information Research Specialist
jmurray@crs.loc.gov, 7-4092

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