EXPLANATION OF OTHER MATERIALS This section includes the following material: (a) A list of advance appropriations, as required by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(17)), including those resulting from multi-year appropriations requests, a list of appropriations with advance funding provisions, and a list of appropriations with forward funding provisions. (b) A statement of amendments and revisions to 1987 III-2 budget authority requests that were transmitted to the Congress after the 1987 Budget but prior to the transmittal of the 1988 Budget, as required by section 601 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (c) A statement of the amounts of appropriations requested for Offices of Inspectors General, as required by section 3 of the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act of 1982 (Public Law 97-255). ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS, ADVANCE FUNDING, AND FORWARD FUNDING FOR 1988 I. Advance appropriations are provided for use in a fiscal year, or more, beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation act is passed. Advance appropriations in 1988 appropriations Acts will provide funding for programs beyond 1988. Since these appropriations are not available until after 1988, the amounts will not be included in 1988 budget totals, but will be reflected in the budget totals for the fiscal year requested. In certain cases, these amounts represent the second or a subsequent year request for appropriations on a multiyear basis. The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(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 1988, advance appropriations for 1989 and beyond and cites the authorizing statute. Also listed in Part A are accounts presented on a multi-year basis that have no specific legal authority. The listing is in two parts: Part A shows the amounts of advance appropriations included in the 1988 budget. Part B is a listing of accounts for which advance appropriations are authorized but not requested in the 1988 budget. A. Accounts for which advance appropriations are included in the 1988 budget: Funds Appropriated to the President: Assistance for the Nica- Department of Defense-Military: all accounts (Public Law 99- Department of Energy: Atomic energy defense activities (Public Law 99-145, sec. 1405) $8,500,000 thousand for 1989. Clean Coal Technology, $100,000 thousand for 1989. Department of Health and Human Services, except Social Security: Federal subsidy for St. Elizabeths Hospital, $24,000 thousand for 1989. Retirement pay and medical benefits for Commissioned Officers, $100,350 thousand for 1989. Grants to States for Medicaid (42 USC., sec. 1396) $30,870,000 thousand for 1989 and $8,500,000 thousand for 1990.1 Payments to Health Care Trust Funds, $30,306,000 thousand for 1989. Payments to Social Security Trust funds, $93,291 thousand for 1989 Special benefits for disabled coal miners (30 U.S.C., sec. 921) $862,590 thousand for 1989 and $220,050 thousand for 1990.1 Supplemental security income program (42 U.S.C., sec. 1381) $12,102,224 thousand for 1989 and $2,684,000 thousand for 1990.1 Family support payments to States (42 U.S.C., secs. 601 and 651) $10,107,868 thousand for 1989 and $2,673,942 thousand for 1990.1 Interim assistance to States for Legalization (Public Law 99- Central Intelligence Agency: Payment to the Central Intelli- Salaries and expenses; defense-related activities (Public Law Emergency management planning and assistance; defenserelated activities (Public Law 99-145, sec. 1405) $193,197 thousand for 1989. Intelligence Community Staff (Public Law 99-145, sec. 1405) $25,123 thousand for 1989. Railroad Retirement Board: Federal payments to the railroad retirement accounts, $3,100 thousand for 1989. Selective Service System: Salaries and expenses (Public Law 99-145, sec. 1405) $26,959 thousand for 1989. B. Accounts authorized to receive advance appropriations but for which none are requested in the 1988 budget: Department of Agriculture: Food program administration (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): 3 Compensatory education for the disadvantaged. Department of Health and Human Services: Family social services (Public Law 96-272). Human development services (Public Law 97-35, sec. 657, These accounts, for which advance appropriations are requested, are also requesting advance funding (see section II Amounts identified for 1989 through 1991 may be adjusted based on reestimating at the time the budget is submitted for each year However, the annual amount cannot exceed $1 billion pursuant to Public Law 99 603 ⚫ These statutes erroneously refer to "advance funding" Since these statutes describe and clearly intend to provide advance appropriations, the affected accounts are listed here, section 1. II. Advance funding is authority provided in appropriations acts to obligate and disburse funds during a fiscal year from a succeeding year's appropriation. The funds so obligated increase the budget authority for the fiscal year in which obligated and reduce the budget authority of the succeeding fiscal year. Essentially, this is a device for avoiding supplemental requests late in the fiscal year for certain entitlement programs, should the appropriations for the current year prove to be too low. The table below lists those accounts for which advance funding authority is requested in the 1988 budget. Department of Labor: Federal unemployment benefits and allowances. Special benefits. Black lung disability trust fund. III. Forward funding is authority provided in an appropriations act to obligate funds in one fiscal year for the financing of ongoing programs of grantees during the 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 prior to the start of the school year. The language providing forward funding for education programs will specify that amounts appropriated will not be available until some time into the year of the appropriation (e.g., July 1, 1988) and in most cases will specify that such amounts will remain available until the end of the Compensatory education for the disadvantaged.1 Education for the handicapped. Vocational and adult education. 1 No new authority is being requested in the 1988 budget for these accounts, for which forward funding has been enacted previously. In the training and employment area, forward funding is provided in some accounts by providing appro priations for a program year that starts in the fiscal year of the appropriation and extends into the following fiscal year. Program years running from July 1 to June 30 are authorized for training programs under the Job Training Partnership Act, State Employment Service operations 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 those accounts for which such forward funding is requested in the 1988 budget. Department of Labor: Training and employment services. Community service employment for older Americans. |