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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 636 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to submit 

to Congress an annual report on projects that are over budget and 

behind schedule, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 9, 2021 

Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. BRAUN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To require the Director of the Office of Management and 

Budget to submit to Congress an annual report on 

projects that are over budget and behind schedule, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Billion Dollar Boon5 doggle Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT. 

7 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

8 (1) the term ‘‘covered agency’’ means— 


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1 (A) an Executive agency, as defined in sec2 tion 105 of title 5, United States Code; and 

3 (B) an independent regulatory agency, as 

4 defined in section 3502 of title 44, United 

5 States Code; 

6 (2) the term ‘‘covered project’’ means a project 

7 funded by a covered agency— 

8 (A) that is more than 5 years behind 

9 schedule; or 

10 (B) for which the amount spent on the 

11 project is not less than $1,000,000,000 more 

12 than the original cost estimate for the project; 

13 and 

14 (3) the term ‘‘project’’ means a major acquisi15 tion, a major defense acquisition program (as de16 fined in section 2430 of title 10, United States 

17 Code), a procurement, a construction project, a re18 mediation or clean-up effort, or any other time-lim19 ited endeavor, that is not funded through direct 

20 spending (as defined in section 250(c) of the Bal21 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 

22 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)). 

23 (b) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 1 year after the 

24 date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 

25 of Management and Budget shall issue guidance requiring 


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1 covered agencies to include, on an annual basis in a report 

2 described in paragraph (2) of section 3516(a) of title 31, 

3 United States Code, or a consolidated report described in 

4 paragraph (1) of such section, information relating to each 

5 covered project of the covered agency, which shall in6 clude— 

7 (1) a brief description of the covered project, 

8 including— 

9 (A) the purpose of the covered project; 

10 (B) each location in which the covered 

11 project is carried out; 

12 (C) the contract or award number of the 

13 covered project, where applicable; 

14 (D) the year in which the covered project 

15 was initiated; 

16 (E) the Federal share of the total cost of 

17 the covered project; and 

18 (F) each primary contractor, subcon19 tractor, grant recipient, and subgrantee recipi20 ent of the covered project; 

21 (2) an explanation of any change to the original 

22 scope of the covered project, including by the addi23 tion or narrowing of the initial requirements of the 

24 covered project; 


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1 (3) the original expected date for completion of 

2 the covered project; 

3 (4) the current expected date for completion of 

4 the covered project; 

5 (5) the original cost estimate for the covered 

6 project, as adjusted to reflect increases in the Con7 sumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, as 

8 published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; 

9 (6) the current cost estimate for the covered 

10 project, as adjusted to reflect increases in the Con11 sumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, as 

12 published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; 

13 (7) an explanation for a delay in completion or 

14 an increase in the original cost estimate for the cov15 ered project, including, where applicable, any impact 

16 of insufficient or delayed appropriations; and 

17 (8) the amount of and rationale for any award, 

18 incentive fee, or other type of bonus, if any, awarded 

19 for the covered project. 

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