I. Appropriations Language 1983 Pay Cost Supplemental INCREASED PAY COSTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1983 or additional amounts for appropriations for the fiscal year 1983, for increased pay costs thorized by or pursuant to law as follows: EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Office of Management and Budget: "Salaries and expenses," $1,318,000 1984 Regular Appropriations EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT SALARIES AND EXPENSES expenses necessary for the Office of Management and Budget, including hire of senger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,500 official representation expenses, $39,643,000. II. General Statement SUMMARY The Office of Management and Budget requests a fiscal year 1984 appropriation of $39,643,000. This request compares with the Office's enacted 1983 appropriation of $33,000,000 and pending pay and program supplemental appropriations of $1,987,000. It represents the essential resources needed for OMB to assist the President in his budgetary, management, and other executive responsibilities. OMB RESPONSIBILITIES The Office of Management and Budget derives its basic authority from the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended. This Act, in providing the first comprehensive national budget system, gave the Bureau of the Budget the authority "to assemble, correlate, revise, reduce, or increase the requests for appropriations of the several departments of establishments." The Bureau was further authorized to make those detailed administrative studies which would help in "securing greater economy and efficiency in the conduct of the public service." In response to a request by the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, President Harding in 1921 instructed the Federal agencies to submit to him, through the Director, all requests or recommendations for legislation which would require appropriations presently of in the future. This clearance procedure was later extended to all legislation. The above and other statutory requirements (listed in Chapter VII) require a set of functions to be performed by OMB. The Office, which was created from the Bureau by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970, also now provides the President with an institutional staff capability in executive management particularly in program evaluation and coordination, management reform, regulatory analysis and information and management systems. FUNCTIONS AND ORGANIZATION The functions of the Office of Management and Budget include the following: • To advise the President on fiscal and economic policies for the nation. • To prepare the budget and formulate the Government's fiscal program. • To supervise and control the administration of the Executive Branch budget. • To examine the management and administrative systems of the Executive Branch to establish policies that will assure the efficient operation of the Federal Government. • To evaluate the performance of Federal programs. • To encourage interagency and intergovernmental cooperation and coordination. • To clear and coordinate departmental recommendations for proposed legislation and for Presidential action on bills passed by Congress. • To assist in the consideration, clearance, and preparation of Executive Orders and proclamations. To keep the President advised of agencies' activities proposed, initiated, and completed; and to coordinate interagency activities to assure that funds appropriated by the Congress are spent with minimum duplication. • To provide overall direction of procurement policies, regulations, and procedures for executive agencies. • To develop and manage programs to improve the quality, efficiency, and performance of acquisition and procurement personnel. To implement and monitor new initiatives on information policy, paperwork reduction and regulatory reform. To establish policies and methods that reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal programs, including provision of staff support to the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency. e detailed organizational information is provided in Chapter V. |