Balances of Budget Authority : Budget for Fiscal Year 1999

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Title:	Balances of Budget Authority : Budget for Fiscal Year 1999
Author:	Government Printing Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Economic & political studies
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Description
Government Reference Publication

Excerpt
Excerpt: Government agencies are permitted to enter into obligations that result in immediate or future outlays only when they have been granted authority to do so by law. This authority is recorded as budget authority in the year that it first becomes available. Not all budget authority enacted for a fiscal year results in obligations and outlays in the same year. This analysis presents information on the unexpended balances of budget authority for the end of fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999 as shown in the FY 1999 Budget. Unexpended balances of budget authority are the sum of obligated and unobligated balances for both Federal and trust funds. ‚ Unobligated balances are the amounts of budget authority that have not yet been obligated. ‚ Obligated balances are the amounts of obligations already incurred (e.g., contracts signed) for which payment has not yet been made but for which payments will be required. Unobligated balances of budget authority (appropriations, contract authority, and authority to borrow) are carried forward from one year to the next only when authority to incur obligations in a succeeding period is specifically provided in law. Amounts that are obligated are carried as obligated balances until the obligations are paid or the authority is canceled. In the aggregate, unexpended balances are the result of a lag between the time budget authority becomes available (e.g., when an appropriation is enacted) and the actual outlay of funds, which usually occurs when Treasury issues a check or electronically transfers the funds.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page NARRATIVE Narrative Explanation of Balances of Budget Authority in the FY 1999 Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Total Federal and Trust Fund Unexpended Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Federal Fund Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Federal Fund Unobligated Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Trust Fund Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Bridges from Authorization to Cash Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Report on the Effect of Certain Payments and Adjustments to Old Balances on the Federal Deficit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Credit Reform - Financing Accounts with Unobligated Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 CHART 1 Federal Fund Unobligated Balances, By Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 TABLES Summary Tables 1 Summary of Unexpended Balances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 Total Unexpended Balances, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Federal Funds 3 Federal Fund Obligated Balances, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 Federal Fund Unobligated Balances, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Page 5 Federal Fund Unobligated Balances, by Type of Program, Detail Critical Reserves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Other Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 6 Federal Fund Unavailable Collections, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Trust Funds 7 Trust Fund Obligated Balances, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 8 Trust Fund Obligated Balances, by Major Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 9 Trust Fund Unobligated Balances, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 10 Trust Fund Unobligated Balances, by Major Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 11 Trust Fund Unavailable Collections, by Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Other Tables 12 Federal Fund Bridge from Authorization Basis to Cash Balances .