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AMENDMENTS TO AND REVISIONS IN BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR 1994

(Between the Transmittal of the 1994 and 1995 Budgets)

A statement of all amendments to or revisions in budget authority requested between transmittal of the 1994 budget and the 1995 budget is presented below. This statement is being included in the budget in accordance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(d)).

The modifications to requests for 1994 budget authority that were made through the course of the past year took three forms. If the Congress had not yet acted on a pending request, the President sent amendments to the budget requests transmitted in April 1993. If appropriations had been enacted, the President proposed either supplemental budget authority or rescission of enacted appropriations.

Amendments and requests for supplemental appropriations are printed in the documents of the House of Representatives and the Senate that are identified on the following listing. The President's proposals for rescissions are included in special messages to the Congress under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344). Both the special messages and monthly cumulative reports on the items they cover are printed in the Federal Register.

There are 37 rescissions currently pending before the Congress, which were transmitted to Congress in a special meswell as new rescission proposals associated with the 1995 sage on November 1, 1993. These rescission proposals, as budget, are shown in the preceding section.

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ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS, ADVANCE FUNDING, AND FORWARD FUNDING

FOR 1995

I. An advance appropriation is one made to become available one fiscal year or more beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation act is passed. Advance appropriations in fiscal year 1995 appropriations acts will become available for programs in 1996 or beyond. Since these appropriations are not available until after fiscal year 1995, the amounts will not be included in fiscal year 1995 budget totals, but will be reflected in the budget totals for the fiscal year for which they are requested.

The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)(17)) requires inclusion in the budget of "information on estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted for grants, contracts, and other payments under each program for which there is an authorization of appropriations for that following fiscal year when the appropriations are authorized to be included in an appropriation law for the fiscal year before the fiscal year in which the appropriation is to be available for obligation." In fulfillment of this requirement, the table below lists those accounts authorized to receive, in fiscal year 1995, advance appropriations for fiscal year 1996 and beyond and cites the authorizing statute. The listing is in two parts: Part A shows the amounts of advance appropriations included in the 1995 budget. Part B is a listing of accounts for which advance appropriations are authorized but not requested in the 1995 budget.

Bilingual and immigrant education.

Special education.

American Printing House for the Blind.
National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
Gallaudet University.

Rehabilitation services and disability research.
Vocational and adult education.

Student financial assistance.
Federal family education loans.
Higher education.

Higher education facilities loans and insurance.
College housing and academic facilities loans.
Howard University.

Education, research, statistics, and improvement.
Libraries.

Department of Health and Human Services:

Payments to States for foster care and adoption assistance (P.L. 96-272).

ACF service programs (P.L. 101-501, sec. 657, P.L. 89-73 as amended, sec. 209, P.L. 96-272).

1 These statutes erroneously refer to "advance funding". Since these statutes describe

and clearly intend to provide advance appropriations, the affected accounts are listed here. II. Advance funding is budget authority that is to be charged to the appropriation in the succeeding year but which authorizes obligations to be incurred in the last quarter of the fiscal year if necessary to meet higher than anticipated benefit payments in excess of the specific amount appropriated for the year. When such budget authority is used, an adjustment is made to increase the budget authority for

A. Accounts for which advance appropriations are included in the the fiscal year in which it is used and to reduce the budget 1995 budget:

Department of Energy:

Clean coal technology (42 U.S.C. 5901 et seq.), $73,921 thousand for 1996.

Department of Health and Human Services, except Social Security:

Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C., sec. 1396) $27,047,717 thousand for 1996.

Special benefits for disabled coal miners (30 U.S.C., sec. 921) $180,000 thousand for 1996.

Supplemental security income program (42 U.S.C., sec. 1381) $7,060,000 thousand for 1996.

Family support payments to States (42 U.S.C., secs. 601 and 651) $4,400,000 thousand for 1996.

Low income home energy assistance programs (P.L. 97–35) $745,000 thousand for 1996.

Department of Agriculture:

authority of the succeeding fiscal year. Essentially, this is a device for avoiding supplemental requests late in the fiscal year for certain programs, should the appropriations for the current year prove to be low. The table below lists those accounts for which advance funding authority is requested in the 1995 budget.

Department of Labor:
Special benefits.

Black lung disability trust fund.

Federal unemployment benefits and allowances.
Department of Veterans Affairs:

Veterans insurance and indemnities.

Burial benefits and miscellaneous assistance.
Readjustment benefits.

III. Forward funding is budget authority that is made avail

Food stamp program (7 U.S.C. 2011-2027, 2029) $7,200,000 able for obligation beginning in the last quarter of the fiscal

thousand for 1996.

Department of Housing and Urban Development:

Assistance for the renewal of expiring section 8 subsidy contracts (42 U.S.C. 1437) $800,000 thousand for 1996. Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Public broadcasting fund $312,000 thousand for 1996 and $292,640 thousand for 1997.

B. Accounts authorized to receive advance appropriations but for which none are requested in the 1995 budget:

Department of Agriculture:

Food program administration (42 U.S.C., sec. 1752). Food donations program (P.L. 93-29, sec. 209). Child nutrition programs (42 U.S.C., sec. 1752). Department of Education. The following activities are authorized to receive advance appropriations (20 U.S.C. 1223 and 29 U.S.C. 703):1

Compensatory education for the disadvantaged.

Impact aid.

School improvement programs.

Indian education.

year for the financing of ongoing grant programs during the next succeeding fiscal year. The budget authority for such programs is included in the budget totals for the year in which it is appropriated. This device is often used for education programs, so that grants can be made on a school year basis. The language providing forward funding for education programs will specify that amounts appropriated, in most but not all cases, will not be available until some time into the year of the appropriation (e.g., July 1, 1994) and in most cases will specify that such amounts will remain available until the end of the succeeding fiscal year. In other cases (e.g., Federal Pell grants), the funds become available on October 1st but are not normally obligated until July 1st or later and are available for obligation for an additional year. The table below lists those accounts for which forward funding exists or is requested in whole or in part in the 1995 budget.

Department of Education:

Compensatory education for the disadvantaged. School improvement programs.

Education reform.

Special education.

Vocational and adult education.

Indian education.

Student financial assistance.

Education, research, statistics, and improvement. Department of the Interior:

Operation of Indian Programs.

In the training and employment area, forward funding provides appropriations for a program year that starts on July

1st of the fiscal year of the appropriation. Financing extends through June 30th of the following fiscal year. Program years are authorized for training programs under the Job Training Partnership Act, operation of the State Employment Service under section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, and senior citizen employment programs under Title V of the Older Americans Act. The table below lists accounts for which forward funding is requested in the 1995 budget.

Department of Labor:

Training and employment services.

Community service employment for older Americans.

State unemployment insurance and employment service operations.

GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED ENTERPRISES

This chapter contains descriptions of and data on the Government-sponsored enterprises listed below. These enterprises were established and chartered by the Federal Government. They are not included in the Federal budget because they are classified as being private. However, because of their relationship to the Government, detailed statements of financial operations and condition are presented, to the extent such information is available, on a basis that is as consistent as practicable with the basis for the budget data of Government agencies. These statements are not reviewed by the President; they are presented as submitted by the enterprises.

-The Student Loan Marketing Association is a for-profit financial corporation chartered by Congress in 1972 under the Higher Education Act (HEA) to help increase the availability of student loans. Sallie Mae carries out secondary market and other functions.

-The College Construction Loan Insurance Association is organized as a private, for-profit insurance corporation to guarantee and insure bonds and loans made for construction and renovation of college and university facilities. The Corporation was established by, but was not chartered by, the Federal Government. -The Federal National Mortgage Association provides supplementary assistance to the secondary market for home mortgages. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation provides a secondary market for mortgage lenders. Both are supervised by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for their roles in helping to finance low- and moderate-income housing; both are regulated for financial safety and soundness by the newly established Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight. -The Banks for Cooperatives and Farm Credit Banks provide financial assistance to agriculture. They are supervised by the Farm Credit Administration. -The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, under the supervision of the Farm Credit Administration, provides a secondary mortgage market for agricultural real estate and certain rural housing loans as well as for farm and business loans guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

-The Federal Home Loan Banks, which assists thrift institutions, banks, and credit unions is supervised by the Federal Housing Finance Board.

-The Financing Corporation functions as a financing vehicle for the FSLIC Resolution Fund. It operates under the supervision and control of the Federal Housing Finance Board.

-The Resolution Funding Corporation provides financing for the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and is subject to the general oversight and direction of the Oversight Board of the RTC. It is owned by the Home Loan Banks. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is not a Government-sponsored enterprise, but its transactions also are not included in the budget because of its unique status in the conduct of monetary policy. The Board provides data on its administrative budget on a calendar year basis, which is included here for information. Its budget schedules and statements are not subject to review by the President.

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