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How an Operating Component's Budget is a Part of the Federal Budget
Introduction
- This an illustration of how the budget of an operating component of a Federal agency
fits into the overall Federal budget, andhow funds flow from a level of aggregation to the
next. This example shows how to find key budget information as well as the
complexity of the budget and its details.
- The specific operating component used in this example is the Office of Mobile Sources
(OMS), a part of the Office of Air and Radiation, which in turn is one of the major
components of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (OMS no
longer exists under this name. It is now called the Office of Transportation and Air
Quality, or OTAQ.) The budget numbers used are those for FY 1999, taken from
various sources as identified.
- The illustration consists of the following parts, each with its own page:
The whole Federal budget, in very large chunks of money.
What each agency or major program has or wants to have, aggregated by
accounts used to track the money.
A detail for one agency of what the numbers in the appendix look like.
This is the lowest level of disaggregation of funds in the official budget
submission.
The results of what Congress does with the request.
How EPA breaks down the amounts made available by Congress to the various
operating components, in this case OAR.
How OMS distributes and tracks the funds made available by OAR.
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