Joes not include full year equivalent employment for 35 employees transferred to the Office of Information and gulatory Affairs, OMB from the Department of Commerce and Council on Wage and Price Stability in June 1981 and igust 1981

34,956

Distribution of Permanent Positions

The distribution of permanent positions assigned to each OMB unit is as follows:

*Includes 10 positions allocated to the Federal Program Information Branch which wil be transferred to the General Service's Administration when legislation is enacted.

65

29

86*

85*

81

64

67

82.

81

80

82

50

10

SUMMARY OF INCREASES FROM 1983 TO 1984
(In thousands of dollars by object classification)

IV.

Detailed Cost Justification by Object Classification

PERSONNEL COMPENSATION (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 11), S24,616,000

This 1984 request seeks additional funding for an increase of 10 in our full time equivalent employment. This will allow us to fill some of the existing full time permanent positions which have been left vacant due to funding constraints. The remaining increase will fund annualization of the 1983 executive pay increase and mandated within grade increases. A maximum of $22,000 of our request will be used to hire consultants only when a special expertise is needed and it is more cost effective to hire a consultant than it is to bring a person on board permanently.

PERSONNEL BENEFITS (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 12), $2,318,000

This request is for OMB's mandatory contributions to the Civil Service Retirement System, the Social Security Retirement and Medicare programs, the Federal Group Life Insurance program, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits program.

TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 21), $363,000

This request is to provide travel funds for the examination of executive branch activities outside Washington, D.C., and for other official business by OMB staff. This level of funding is approximately the same as that expended in 1976. During the same time period reimbursements for per diem and high cost areas have increased 50% and 43%, respectively. Consequently, the current request is, in real terms, well below the 1976 levels. During the past two years we have had almost no travel. In 1982 we expended $92,000 for travel, a decrease of $338,000 (79%) from the previous year. We believe it is necessary for our examiners, especially our new examiners, to make on-site visits in their programatic area so they get first hand experience on how the programs operate.

STANDARD LEVEL USER CHARGES (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 23.1), $5,159,000

This estimate represents payments made to the General Services Administration (GSA) for rental of office space in the Old and New Executive Office Buildings. The rates used are those mandated by GSA for space currently occupied. GSA has imposed higher standard level user charges (SLUC) in the New EOB from $13.22 per square foot to $29.79 per square

foot, a 125 percent increase over 1983. During the past two years OMB has reduced the quare footage occupied by approximately 18,000 sq. ft. or 10%.

COMMUNICATIONS, UTILITIES AND OTHER RENT (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 23.2), $2,130,000 This estimate includes payment for the cost of operating the Executive Office joint telephone witchboard, including salaries of telephone operators, use of telephone equipment and elephone service. Also included in this estimate are costs associated with (1) rental of luplicating, word processing ADP, and other equipment; (2) reimbursement to GSA for urnishing after-hour utilities, and for telephone and postage costs. Additional costs are due rimarily to the increased rates for telephone (up 20%) and utilities. The remaining increase s due to higher lease and rental costs for word processing, reproduction and ADP equipment. n real terms, the FY 1984 request level is still 10% less than OMB's 1981 operational level.

'RINTING AND REPRODUCTION (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 24), $1,728,000

his request covers the cost of publishing in the Federal Register; work done by the Government Printing Office (GPO), principally the printing of the President's budget ocuments and related materials, forms and binding, and other work which cannot be andled by the Office of Administration's duplicating facilities. While GPO has increased the nit costs for the President's budget documents and related materials, OMB has managed to old down costs for the past two years by significantly reducing the number of free copies of he budget books and by printing fewer hardbound copies. In FY 1982 we reduced our (penditures in this area by $370,000 from the 1981 level. Even though we have requested an crease in FY-84, our current request level is approximately the same as the 1978 operational vel of $1,745,000.

THER SERVICES (OBJECT CLASSIFICATION 25), $2,646,000

his request includes charges for: (1) the development of various computer information stems, (2) computer time-sharing, (3) personnel security investigations conducted by the ffice of Personnel Management, (4) OMB's share of maintaining an employee health ogram, (5) maintenance agreements and repairs to equipment, (6) training, and (7) other iscellaneous services. The current request level is approximately the same as what was pended in 1972 and is $1,700,000 (39%) less than what was expended in 1980. Increased nding will be used for maintenance and improvements to our current computer information stems, subscription fees for computer time-sharing services, employee security vestigations, and training, all of which have been deferred or curtailed for the past two ars. The request also provides funding for the limited development of new systems and ›rmal price increases for existing computer services and maintenance contracts.