SUMMARY OF BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR 1974 AND COMPARISON TO 1973

*Includes enacted appropriations adjusted by transfers from other agencies for space expansion and proposed supplementals.

1/ Includes $100,118,000 requested transfer from 1973 appropriation for Construction.

2/ Proposed transfer from 1973 appropriation for Construction.

HIGHLIGHT OF PROVISIONS FOR GSA IN THE 1974 BUDGET

The Budget of the United States for 1974 includes proposed new budget authority for GSA of $620,018,000, a net decrease of $364,720,000 from the 1973 comparable amount. A transfer of $198,055,000 appropriated in FY 1973 is also proposed making a total availability in 1974 of $818,073,000.

A. Basic Operations of GSA in the fields of real property, personal property, automated data and telecommunications management, excess and surplus real and personal property, strategic and critical materials, and top direction is provided for in 6 appropriation items. A net increase of $10.6 million in obligating authority is reflected for these items.

net increase of $12.2 million for operating expenses of Public Buildings, primarily for increased cost and operation of additional Government-owned space (a total additional amount of $27.4 million offset by decreases of $15.2 million due to such items as disposal of Governmentowned space and rental savings as new buildings are being acquired).

An increase of $5 million for operating expenses of Federal Supply, primarily for ADP programing and systems design support, a one-time study of the Federal Supply organization, and supply distribution activities.

A net increase of $1.2 million in operating expenses of the National Archives and Records Service, including $1.4 million for workload increases and $0.4 million for Chicago records center relocation, offset by non-recurring cost decrease of $0.6 million.

A nominal increase of $0.6 million for operating expenses of the
Automated Data and Telecommunications Service and the Office of
Administrator for full-year employment of authorized positions.

A net decrease of $8.5 million for operating expenses of the Property Management and Disposal Service principally due to non-recurring appropriation of $8 million in 1973 for sale of rare silver dollars.

B. Construction and Improvement.- A decrease of $226.3 million in Construction and Sites and Expenses appropriations, offset by increases of $9.9 million for Repair and Improvement and $4.9 million for Payments, Public Buildings Purchase Contracts.

C. Other Appropriation Items. - The additional $34.4 million includes increases of $33 million for liquidation functions involving the Office of Economic Opportunity, $2.2 million for Expenses, U.S. Court Facilities, $0.5 million Indian Tribal Claims, and decreases of $1.3 million.

D. Limitation Items. Increase of $7.8 million in Administrative Operations Fund limitation primarily due to a change in the method of financing internal GSA ADP systems design and programing.

In accordance with administration policy, the recently granted classified pay increases are to be absorbed within total appropriations currently available to GSA for fiscal year 1973. In addition, the appropriations requested in the President's Budget for 1974 do not reflect the impact of the full-year cost of these increases.

FORMAT OF JUSTIFICATIONS AND GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

In general, the format and sequence of the justification of estimates for 1974 conform with the presentation for 1973 estimates.

Although the Office of Management and Budget requires that financial schedules be prepared on a cost basis as shown in the printed Budget, these justifications are prepared on the customary obligation basis with which the committees are familiar. As costs and obligations differ, all financial schedules on a cost basis have been omitted from the justification material for appropriation items to avoid confusion. Equivalent data on an obligation basis is provided in summary reconciliation statements and summary activity data sheets for each item.

Throughout the justifications, where appropriate, short titles and abbreviations have been used to shorten the text as follows:

SEC. 1. The appropriate appropriation or fund available to the General Services Administration shall be credited with (1) cost of operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, included as part of rentals received from Government corporations pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129); and (2) appropriations or funds available to other agencies, and transferred to the General Services Administration, in connection with property transferred to the General Services Administration pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1948 (50 U.S.C. 451ff), and such appropriations or funds may be so transferred, with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget.

SEC. 2.

Appropriations to the General Services Administration under the heading "Construction, Public Buildings Projects" shall be available, subject to the provisions of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 for (1) acquisition of buildings and sites thereof by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, including prepayment of purchase contracts, (2) extension or conversion of Government-owned buildings, and (3) construction of new buildings, in addition to those set forth under that appropriation: Provided, That nothing herein shall authorize an expenditure of funds for acquisition, extension or conversion, or construction without the approval of the _Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives./

SEC. 37 2. Funds available to the General Services Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.

SEC. 47 3. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriation made

available to the General Services Administration for the current fiscal year by this Act may be transferred to any other such appropriation, but no such appropriation shall be increased thereby more than 2 per centum: Provided, That such transfers shall apply only to operating expenses, and shall not exceed in the aggregate the amount of $2,000,000.

EXPLANATION OF CHANGE IN GSA'S GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 2 of GSA's General Provisions has been proposed for deletion in the President's Budget since no new appropriation is requested for "Construction, Public Buildings Projects" in 1974. Appropriations under this heading in prior fiscal years will continue to be obligated and expended for the purposes enumerated in section 2 under the authority of that section as contained in the Acts making the appropriations.